Diversity Of Trees In Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest Defies Simple Explanation

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 20:14 in Earth & Climate

Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the journal Science. This study was conducted in the Yasuni forest dynamics plot of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, a diverse tropical forest site.

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