Cavanillesia Platanifolia (IMAGE)

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Cavanillesia Platanifolia

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Trunk and seedling of a long-lived pioneer (Cavanillesia platanifolia). Giant long-lived pioneers store most of the biomass in this tropical forest, even though their seedlings only very rarely survive and make it to the canopy.

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Christian Ziegler

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