About the Authors

Juliano Sarmento Cabral

jsarmen@uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Gunnar Petter

Affiliation Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Glenda Mendieta-Leiva

Affiliation Functional Ecology of Plants, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Katrin Wagner

Affiliation Functional Ecology of Plants, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Gerhard Zotz

Affiliations Functional Ecology of Plants, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama

Holger Kreft

Affiliation Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSC GP GZ HK. Performed the experiments: JSC GP. Analyzed the data: JSC GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ. Wrote the paper: JSC GP GZ HK. Inventoried canopy data: GZ GML KW.