Testing the Janzen-Connell model for species diversity in a West African montane forest.
A major question in ecology is 'why are tropical forests so species diverse?' One hypothesis to explain tropical species diversity is the Janzen-Connell hypothesis. This model assumes high levels of host-specific seed and seedling predation and / or pathogen attack when seedlings occur...
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University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1347 |