Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research
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Y. M A L H I *, M . S I L M A N w , N . S A L I N A S z, M . B U S H § , P. M E I R } and S . S A AT C H I k *Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK, wDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, USA, zUniversidad San Antonio Abad, Cusco, Peru, §School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK, }Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA, kJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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