A few tree species dominate diverse Amazon rain forest

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world — about 10 percent of all known species on Earth dwell there — but only a few dozen of the Amazon's thousands of tree species rule the jungle, researchers recently found.

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