Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species
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Bruno Hérault*, Bénédicte Bachelot, Lourens Poorter, Vivien Rossi, Frans Bongers, Jérôme Chave, C. E. Timothy Paine, Fabien Wagner and Christopher Baraloto Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, UMR ‘‘Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane’’, 97387 Kourou Cedex, France; AgroParisTech, UMR ‘‘Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane’’, 97387 Kourou Cedex, France; Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; CIRAD, UMR ‘‘Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane’’, 97387 Kourou Cedex, France; CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, 31062 Toulouse, France; INRA, UMR ‘‘Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane’’, 97387 Kourou Cedex, France; and Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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