New Theory May Explain Consistent Tree Distribution (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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New Theory May Explain Consistent Tree Distribution (2 of 2)

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Tropical rainforest on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 8, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.E. Farrior at National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis in Knoxville, Tenn., and colleagues was titled, "Dominance of the suppressed: Power-law size structure in tropical forests."

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