Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests

• Emilio Vilanova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Vilanova, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory J. Ettl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vilanova@uw.edu

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United of States America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6289-5127

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• Hirma Ramírez-Angulo ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

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• Armando Torres-Lezama ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

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• Gerardo Aymard ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Universidad Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora (UNELLEZ), Portuguesa, Venezuela

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• Luis Gámez ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

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• Cristabel Durán ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Forest Sciences. Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Lionel Hernández ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana (UNEG), Bolívar, Venezuela

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• Rafael Herrera ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela, Department of Geography and Regional Research–Geoecology, University of Vienna, Austria

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• Geertje van der Heijden ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-5173

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• Oliver L. Phillips ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Vilanova, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory J. Ettl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Gregory J. Ettl

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Vilanova, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory J. Ettl

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United of States America

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