Forest Diversity (IMAGE)

Indiana University

Forest Diversity

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Data from over 3 million trees in the eastern half of the US were aggregated into two-degree-latitude-by-longitude cells in order to study regional patterns of conspecific negative density dependence, a process where the mortality of a species rises in coincidence with its increasing abundance.

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Indiana University

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