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Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories.
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Enhanced recruitment may help explain why NDD-associated recruitment and clustering patterns are weakly significant and often change little over most phylogenetic distance in these FDPs.
Here we quantify, in sixteen forest diversity plots (FDPs) worldwide, highly significant negative density-dependent (NDD) components of both conspecific and heterospecific between-tree interactions that affect the trees’ distributions, growth, recruitment, and mortality.