About the Authors

Philip Taylor

philipgrahamtaylor@gmail.com

Affiliation The Institute of Artic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303, United States of America

Gregory Asner

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States of America

Kyla Dahlin

Affiliation National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Study Program, Boulder, Colorado, 80307, United States of America

Christopher Anderson

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States of America

David Knapp

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States of America

Roberta Martin

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States of America

Joseph Mascaro

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States of America

Robin Chazdon

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269, United States of America

Rebecca Cole

Affiliation The Institute of Artic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303, United States of America

Wolfgang Wanek

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1010, Austria

Florian Hofhansl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1010, Austria

Edgar Malavassi

Affiliation Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingenieria Forestal, Cartago, Costa Rica

Braulio Vilchez-Alvarado

Affiliation Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingenieria Forestal, Cartago, Costa Rica

Alan Townsend

Affiliation The Institute of Artic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT GA KD AT. Performed the experiments: PT CA DK RM R. Chazdon R. Cole WW FH EM BVA. Analyzed the data: PT GA KD CA DK RM JM WW FH EM BVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT KD JM. Wrote the paper: PT GA AT.