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TROPICAL FORESTS

• high life-from diversity; unstratified

• heterogeneous vegetation; widely-

separated individuals of given spp.

• high species richness & diversity

SPACE

• no regular succession to typical climax

TIME

• complex 3-D structure

• most individuals replaced by other spp.

• => shifting, dynamic, mosaic in time

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