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November 2001
How to explain the maintenance of high tree species diversity in tropical rain forests ? A study conducted by IRD researchers in French Guiana as part of the SOFT programme (1) provides the first-ever validation, in this ecosystem, of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.
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