风塑造了热带森林树木的生长策略

Toby D Jackson1,2, Paulo Bittencourt3, Jakob Poffley1

  • 1Conservation Research Institute and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Ecology letters
|October 2, 2024
PubMed
概括

热带树木为了生存而平衡生长. 木材密度较低的物种面临更高的风险,优先考虑轻度竞争而不是结构稳定性,影响森林动态.

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