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Forty years of rain forest ecology 1948–1988 in perspective

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The main fields of research in tropical rain forest ecology today are briefly described and the development of the subject over the past forty years is outlined.

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Whitmore, T.C. Forty years of rain forest ecology 1948–1988 in perspective. GeoJournal 19, 347–360 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176904

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