3 Assessing Recruitment Limitation : Concepts , Methods and Case - studies from a Tropical Forest
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Helene C. Muller-Landau,1, 2 S. Joseph Wright,2 Osvaldo Calderón,2 Stephen P. Hubbell2, 3 and Robin B. Foster2, 4 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA; 2Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Ancón, Republic of Panama; 3Botany Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7271, USA; 4The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA
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