Understory regeneration includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and bryophytes, with tree regeneration being the dominant process in forest understory layer. It also involves the various stages of plant growth from seed production, dispersal, and germination to seedlings' settlement, survival, and growth[61]....
herbaceous layer; Neotropics; rainforest; Gentry transect; phylogenetic diversity; plant diversity; Mexico1. Introduction The diversity of tropical rainforest plant communities is unsurpassed by that of any other known terrestrial biome [1,2,3]. Given the superlative nature of tropical plant diversity...
The understory is the section of the forest that's close to the ground, as opposed to the canopy, which is the high point of...