Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of stu

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The studies in the Ogawa Forest Reserve (OPR) were initiated by a group of plant ecologists and gradually expanded into a comprehensive project covering various