Response of Demographic Rates of Tropical Trees to Light Availability: Can Position-Based Competition Indices Replace Information from Canopy Census Data?

• Steffi Grote ,

  * E-mail: grote.steffi@gmail.com

  Affiliation Spezielle Botanik und Funktionelle Biodiversität, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Richard Condit,

  Affiliation Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Stephen Hubbell,

  Affiliations Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Christian Wirth,

  Affiliations Spezielle Botanik und Funktionelle Biodiversität, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Nadja Rüger

  Affiliations Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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