Why not both? Rainforest diversity stems from two seemingly irreconcilable processes

Mongabay
Jun 2, 2017, 6:38 am111 pts
It’s crowded in the tropics. Take the plant world: 1,000 tree species can coexist in a small equatorial area of only a quarter kilometer squared, according to one forest ecologist, S. Joseph Wright. That’s about as many tree species as in all the temperate forests of the northern hemisphere combined.…

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