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Tropical trees use social distancing to maintain biodiversity: Tropical forests often harbor hundreds of species of trees in a square mile, but scientists often struggle to understand how such a d (aussie.zone)

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/science/p/1171656

Tropical trees use social distancing to maintain biodiversity: Tropical forests often harbor hundreds of species of trees in a square mile, but scientists often struggle to understand how such a diversity of species can coexist.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-tropical-trees-social-distancing-biodiversity.html

#science #biology #botany #ecology #plants #computationalmodeling

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I’m more thinking of lower diversity temperate/subtropical forests. You are probably correct that highly diverse tropical forests will be negatively impacted. Just trying to think of silver linings to the sorry state of our world.