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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 183-188Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01822-X
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Studies that are unprecedented in scale, detail or approach show that niche partitioning contributes less, and chance events more, than expected to maintaining tree species richness via gap dynamics in tropical and temperate forests, Some tree species are differentially adapted for regeneration in different gap microenvironments. However, the stochastic availability of gaps, and limited recruitment of juveniles, mean that gaps are filled mostly by chance occupants rather than by best adapted species. This chance survival can slow competitive exclusion and maintain tree diversity. Gap dynamics do not explain the latitudinal gradient in tree richness.
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