The mystery of monodominance—how natural monocultures evolve in the rainforest
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 06:01
in Biology & Nature
In ecology, monodominance is identified as a condition in which at least 60 percent, or often even 90 percent of trees in a natural forest belong to the same tree species. We know of at least 22 species from eight families that create forest areas of this kind. How this is achieved is a mystery on which ecologists have speculated for decades.