How competition for sunlight shapes forest structure

ENN
Jan 8, 2016, 7:20 am29 pts
Despite their diversity, the structure of most tropical rainforests is highly predictable. Scientists have described the various sizes of the trees by a simple mathematical relationship called a power law.In a new study using data from a rainforest in Panama, researchers determined that competition for sunlight…

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