Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests
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Claire Fortunel*, C. E. Timothy Paine, Paul V. A. Fine, Nathan J. B. Kraft and Christopher Baraloto INRA, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, BP 709, 97387, Kourou Cedex, France; Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Biology University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; and Department of Biology University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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