Tree mortality and recruitment in secondary Andean tropical mountain forests along a 3000 m elevation gradient

• Jenny C. Ordoñez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jenny C. Ordoñez, Francisco Cuesta

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jennyordonez@gmail.com (JCO); francisco.cuesta@udla.edu.ec (FC)

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud -BIOMAS—Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0558-7229

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• Esteban Pinto ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EP and AB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

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• Antonella Bernardi ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EP and AB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud -BIOMAS—Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador

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• Francisco Cuesta

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jenny C. Ordoñez, Francisco Cuesta

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jennyordonez@gmail.com (JCO); francisco.cuesta@udla.edu.ec (FC)

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud -BIOMAS—Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-073X

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