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The Chapter highlights the fact that there is a common pattern of spatial variation in tropical forests across the three continents and elaborates this fact taking specific example of tropical rainforests, the most complex of all formations. What seems to be a bewildering chaos of vegetation does have in fact an organized structure across the three tropical regions and composed of similar synusiae or communities of tree species with homogeneous characteristics and possessing great similarity in their spatial arrangement. Thanks to this, the knowledge acquired in one region or country could serve a very useful purpose for survey planning in another regions or countries. This constitutes an important basis of South-South Cooperation.
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Singh, K.D. (2013). Common Patterns of Spatial Variations in the Tropics . In: Capacity Building for the Planning, Assessment and Systematic Observations of Forests. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32292-1_11
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