Are tropical forest structure and dynamics too complex for universal explanations?
“When you walk through different tropical forests, or graph data from different forests, there are certain features that, at first glance, look similar everywhere ‘” the presence of some very large trees, or the general shape of the tree size distribution curve,” explains first author, Helene Muller-Landau from the University of Minnesota. “So you start to think that there might be some general explanations.