Illumination–size relationships of 109 coexisting tropical forest tree species
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DOUGLAS SHEIL*, AGUS SALIM*†, JÉRÔME CHAVE‡, JEROME VANCLAY§ and WILLIAM D. HAWTHORNE¶ * Center for International Forestry Research, PO Box 6596 JKPWB, Jakarta 10065, Indonesia, † National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Mills Road, Acton ACT 0200, Australia, ‡ Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR CNRS 5174, 118, route de Narbone, F-31062 Toulouse, France, § School of Environmental Science and Management, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore NSW 2480, Australia, and ¶ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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