SPECIAL FEATURE FOREST RESILIENCE, TIPPING POINTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE PROCESSES Long-term disturbance dynamics and resilience of tropical peat swamp forests
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Lydia E. S. Cole*, Shonil A. Bhagwat and Katherine J. Willis Oxford Long-term Ecology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK; Biodiversity Institute, Oxford Martin School, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK; Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK; Department of Biology, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway; and Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
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