Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests

• Christopher Wills ,

  * E-mail: cwills@ucsd.edu

  Affiliation Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116, United States of America

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• Kyle E. Harms,

  Affiliation Dept. of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America

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• Thorsten Wiegand,

  Affiliations Dept. of Ecological Modeling, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH–UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity Synthesis, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Ruwan Punchi-Manage,

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem Modelling, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

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• Gregory S. Gilbert,

  Affiliations Dept. of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá 0843–03092

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• David Erickson,

  Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá 0843–03092

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• W. John Kress,

  Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá 0843–03092

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• Stephen P. Hubbell,

  Affiliations Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá 0843–03092, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles 90095, California, United States of America

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• C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke,

  Affiliation Dept. of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, 20400 Sri Lanka

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• I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke

  Affiliation Dept. of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, 20400 Sri Lanka

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