Neighborhood interactions on seedling survival were greatly altered following an extreme winter storm

Extreme climatic events (ECEs) are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude under scenarios of global change. It is well known that ECEs impact community structure and dynamics, but how ECEs alter community assembly remains unclear. The strength of local neighborhood interactions should be altered following ECEs, which could provide a mechanistic basis for how ECEs impact forest community dynamics. In a subtropical forest in China, we...