Is temporal variation of seedling communities determined by environment or by seed arrival? A test in a neotropical forest
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NATALIA NORDEN, JÉRÔME CHAVE, ADELINE CAUBÈRE*, PATRICK CHÂTELET†, NICOLE FERRONI, PIERRE-MICHEL FORGET* and CHRISTOPHE THÉBAUD Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174 Université Paul Sabatier/CNRS, F-31062 Toulouse, France, * Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 5176 CNRS-MNHN, 4 av. du Petit Château, F-91800 Brunoy, France, and † Station d’Etudes des Nouragues, CNRS UPS 656, French Guiana
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