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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity.
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) predicts local species diversity to be maximal at an intermediate level of disturbance. Developed to explain species maintenance and diversity patterns in species-rich ecosystems such as tropical forests, tests of IDH in tropical forest remain scarce, small-scale and contentious. We use an unprecedented large-scale dataset (2504 one-hectare plots and 331,567 trees) to examine whether IDH explains tree diversity variation within wet, moist and dry ...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- Ecology letters
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 798-805
- Publication date:
- 2009-08-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1461-0248
- ISSN:
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1461-023X
- Source identifiers:
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49940
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:49940
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- pubs:49940
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2009
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