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Socratea grows vertically even as a seedling, and can attain high density in the old forest on BCI. Scheelea tolerates understory conditions as a seedling, but as leaf overlap and proportion of non-photosynthetic biomass increase, it reaches a stage at which a large gap in the canopy is required for further growth. Scheelea persists in the understory as suppressed individuals, and partly due to the large gap requirement, the adults are widely scattered in the old forest.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T06:21:58Z (GMT). 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