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Species coexistence mechanisms structure the root economic space along soil nutrient gradients in a species-diverse tropical forest

2026-06-26

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Tropical forests contain many of the world’s plant biodiversity hotspots despite frequently occurring on infertile soils. How diverse plant species coexist and compete for limited soil nutrients has remained a foundational question in community tropical forest ecology. To examine mechanisms for species coexistence, we quantified nutrient acquisition strategies and soil niche space partitioning among 33 coexisting...

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Literature Corpus work: b191dce2-1856-5e64-9b74-125aa16dcac8
DOI: 10.22541/authorea.15005237/v1

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