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Table 1. Expectations for different ecological processes driving local species distribution. The analyses employed in this study and the results for three size classes of three Myrcia species sampled in a 1-ha plot of restinga forest, southeastern Brazil, are also shown. The neighbourhood scale (up to some 10 m) represents direct species interactions, the patch scale represents approximately homogeneous (suitable or less suitable) environments, whereas the community scale (100 m – tens of km) comprises several patches.