About the Authors

Paul-Camilo Zalamea

camilozalamea@gmail.com

Current address: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Republic of Panama

Affiliations IRD, UMR AMAP (Botanique et bioinformatique de l'architecture des plantes), Montpellier, France, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Patrick Heuret

Affiliations INRA, UMR ECOFOG (Écologie des Forêts de Guyane), Kourou, French Guiana, INRA, UMR AMAP (Botanique et bioinformatique de l'architecture des plantes), Montpellier, France

Carolina Sarmiento

Affiliations Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, CIRAD, UMR AMAP (Botanique et bioinformatique de l'architecture des plantes), Montpellier, France

Manuel Rodríguez

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Anne Berthouly

Affiliation INRA, UMR ECOFOG (Écologie des Forêts de Guyane), Kourou, French Guiana

Stéphane Guitet

Affiliations Office National des Forêts, DTRD, Cayenne, French Guiana, INRA, UMR AMAP (Botanique et bioinformatique de l'architecture des plantes), Montpellier, France

Eric Nicolini

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AMAP (Botanique et bioinformatique de l'architecture des plantes), Montpellier, France

César Delnatte

Affiliation Museum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

Daniel Barthélémy

Affiliations INRA, UMR AMAP (Botanique et bioinformatique de l'architecture des plantes), Montpellier, France, CIRAD, BIOS Direction, Montpellier, France

Pablo R. Stevenson

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCZ PH PRS DB. Performed the experiments: PCZ MR CS SG CD EN. Analyzed the data: PCZ AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCZ PH PRS SG. Wrote the paper: PCZ. Intellectual support and editorial input: PH CS PRS.