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Battle for Survival May Yield the Rain Forests Diversity
2014-01-02 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The diversity of a tropical rain forest can be hard to fathom for people who have not seen one. Three acres of jungle may be home to more than 650 species of trees more species than grow in the entire continental United States and Canada combined. Its tempting to look at all those species living so close together as a picture of peaceful coexistence. But Phyllis D. Coley and Thomas A. Kursar, a husband-and-wife team of ecologists at the University of Utah, see them as war zones. Hordes of insects...
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