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Niches, Not Neutrality, Build Diverse Forests (3 of 3)

Caption: Image of the crown of a sapling of the tree species Brownea grandiceps, an abundant species within the Yasuni Forest Dynamics Plot. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Oct. 24, 2008, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Nathan Kraft and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley was titled "Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest."

Credit: Image © Nathan Kraft, University of California, Berkeley

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