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Hello Cjkeen! I'm responding to your request on Talk:Treefall gap. Here are my suggestions:

Do not use bold text in any section headers.
Secondly, when you use phrases like "Scientists have not been able to come to a conclusion on one absolute method for measuring a treefall gap.", this appears like your own analysis and thus Original research or synthesis: only if it is explicitly stated in reliable sources should the comment be included (with a footnote for attribution).
Conversley, some of your paragraphs are over-cited (see Seed dispersal into treefall gaps): if an entire sentence or paragraph derives from a single source, it is unnecessary to cite within or at the end of each sentence. Excessive footnotes can impede readability, and source-statement attribution can be maintained by clear composition (e.g. "A 2005 study found ... and ... and ... affected dispersal.^[ref])
Before you move this draft to the main page, it should be adequately wikilinked to relevant other articles (see WP:MOSLINK for details).
The first section does not necessarily need to be "definition", in fact the first section should be a lead preceding the table of contents which summarizes the entire article as opposed to merely introducing it. see WP:LEAD for details.
Since all Wikipedia articles are in a constant state of improvement, words like "recent" should be replaced by specific dates. An event that occurred yesterday may not be considered recent in 5 or 10 years.

Cheers!