author keywords: Appalachian forests; biodiversity; community assembly; forest structure; hierarchical Bayesian; Longleaf Pine woodlands; multiscale sampling; Piedmont forests; productivity-diversity relationship; scale dependence; species richness

MeSH headings : Biodiversity; Forests; Humans; Plants; Southeastern United States; Trees

TL;DR: Using data from a large network of multi-scale vegetation plots across forests and woodlands of the southeastern US, significant evidence is found for the scale dependent, joint constraints of forest structure and soil resources on the distribution of vascular plant species richness. (via Semantic Scholar)