Forest Diversity From Canada to the Sub-Tropics Influenced by Family Proximity
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
How species diversity is maintained is a fundamental question in biology. In a new study, a team of Indiana University biologists has shown for the first time that diversity is influenced on a spatial scale of unparalleled scope, in part, by how well tree seedlings survive under their own parents.
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