In both forest plots the presence of a large summed basal area of annular trees is associated with a highly significant slowing of growth of small focal trees ( Fig 2 ).
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Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests.
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We have pooled information from all of the tree species in the BCI or in the Sinharaja plots in our initial analyses, in order to maximize the likelihood of detecting even weakly significant relationships between the properties of focal and annular trees.