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Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species growth and distribution in a diverse Amazonian forest by Fortunel, Claire, Lasky, Jesse R., Uriarte, María, Valencia, Renato, Wright, S. Joseph, Garwood, Nancy C., Kraft, Nathan J. B.

“…Abiotic constraints and biotic interactions act simultaneously to shape communities. However, these community assembly mechanisms are often studied…”
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Army ant males lose seasonality at a site on the equator by Tozetto, Leonardo, Forrister, Dale L., Duval, Megan, Hays, Tobias, Garwood, Nancy C., Castro, Ronald Vargas, Lattke, John E., Sendoya, Sebastian, Longino, John T.

“…Army ants are keystone predators in the tropics and subtropics. During reproduction, males fly between colonies to mate with unmated, wingless queens. The…”
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Neighborhood and community interactions determine the spatial pattern of tropical tree seedling survival by Queenborough, Simon A., Burslem, David F. R. P., Garwood, Nancy C., Valencia, Renato

“…Factors affecting survival and recruitment of 3531 individually mapped seedlings of Myristicaceae were examined over three years in a highly diverse…”
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Taxonomic scale-dependence of habitat niche partitioning and biotic neighbourhood on survival of tropical tree seedlings by Queenborough, Simon A., Burslem, David F. R. P., Garwood, Nancy C., Valencia, Renato

“…In order to differentiate between mechanisms of species coexistence, we examined the relative importance of local biotic neighbourhood, abiotic habitat factors…”
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Seed mass, abundance and breeding system among tropical forest species: do dioecious species exhibit compensatory reproduction or abundances? by Queenborough, Simon A., Mazer, Susan J., Vamosi, Steven M., Garwood, Nancy C., Valencia, Renato, Freckleton, Rob P.

“…1. Dioecious species may suffer a reproductive handicap compared to sympatric cosexual (hermaphroditic or monoecious) species of equal abundance simply because…”
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Determinants of Biased Sex Ratios and Inter-Sex Costs of Reproduction in Dioecious Tropical Forest Trees by Simon A. Queenborough, David F. R. P. Burslem, Garwood, Nancy C., Valencia, Renato

“…Estimates of the sex ratio and cost of reproduction in plant populations have implications for resource use by animals, reserve design, and mechanisms of…”
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Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity by Usinowicz, Jacob, Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao, Chen, Yu-Yun, Clark, James S., Fletcher, Christine, Garwood, Nancy C., Hao, Zhanqing, Johnstone, Jill, Lin, Yiching, Metz, Margaret R., Masaki, Takashi, Nakashizuka, Tohru, Sun, I-Fang, Valencia, Renato, Wang, Yunyun, Zimmerman, Jess K., Ives, Anthony R., Wright, S. Joseph

“…High tree species diversity in tropical forests is driven by reduced interspecific competition relative to intraspecific competition, as a result of the…”
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Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest by Fortunel, Claire, Valencia, Renato, Wright, S. Joseph, Garwood, Nancy C., Kraft, Nathan J. B.

“…As distinct community assembly processes can produce similar community patterns, assessing the ecological mechanisms promoting coexistence in hyperdiverse…”
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Seasonality of reproduction in an ever‐wet lowland tropical forest in Amazonian Ecuador by Garwood, Nancy C., Metz, Margaret R., Queenborough, Simon A., Persson, Viveca, Wright, S. Joseph, Burslem, David F. R. P., Zambrano, Milton, Valencia, Renato

“…Flowering and fruiting phenology have been infrequently studied in the ever‐wet hyperdiverse lowland forests of northwestern equatorial Amazonía. These…”
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relationship between seed mass and mean time to germination for 1037 tree species across five tropical forests by Norden, Natalia, Daws, Matthew I., Antoine, Camille, Gonzalez, Mailyn A., Garwood, Nancy C., Chave, Jerome

“…1. Theoretical models predict that large-seeded species should germinate more rapidly than small-seeded species, since large seeds are more likely to have…”
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Flower production decreases with warmer and more humid atmospheric conditions in a western Amazonian forest by Vleminckx, Jason, Hogan, J. Aaron, Metz, Margaret R., Comita, Liza S., Queenborough, Simon A., Wright, S. Joseph, Valencia, Renato, Zambrano, Milton, Garwood, Nancy C.

“…Summary Climate models predict that everwet western Amazonian forests will face warmer and wetter atmospheric conditions, and increased cloud cover. It remains…”
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Multiscale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse Amazonian plant communities by Pak, Damie, Swamy, Varun, Alvarez‐Loayza, Patricia, Cornejo‐Valverde, Fernando, Queenborough, Simon A., Metz, Margaret R., Terborgh, John, Valencia, Renato, Wright, S. Joseph, Garwood, Nancy C., Lasky, Jesse R.

“…Phenology has long been hypothesized as an avenue for niche partitioning or interspecific facilitation, both promoting species coexistence. Tropical plant…”
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Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests by Metz, Margaret R., Wright, S. Joseph, Zimmerman, Jess K., Hernandéz, Andrés, Smith, Samuel M., Swenson, Nathan G., Umaña, M. Natalia, Valencia, L. Renato, Waring‐Enriquez, Ina, Wordell, Mason, Zambrano, Milton, Garwood, Nancy C.

“…Understanding the mechanisms that promote the coexistence of hundreds of species over small areas in tropical forest remains a challenge. Many tropical tree…”
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Seed polyphenols in a diverse tropical plant community by Gripenberg, Sofia, Garwood, Nancy C., Rota, Jadranka, Kim, Jorma, Wright, S. Joseph, Zalamea, Paul-Camilo, Salminen, Juha-Pekka, Fricke, Evan C.

“…1. Polyphenols are one of the most common groups of secondary metabolites in plants and thought to play a key role in enhancing plant fitness by protecting…”
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Chamaedorea (Xaté) in the Greater Maya Mountains and the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Belize: An Economic Assessment of a Non-Timber Forest Product by Bridgewater, Samuel G. M, Pickles, Philippa, Garwood, Nancy C, Penn, Malcolm, Bateman, Richard M, Morgan, Holly Porter, Wicks, Nicholas, Bol, Nicodemous

“…Of the twelve species of Chamaedorea palm recorded for Belize, three are of international economic value because their cut leaves (xaté) are traded in the…”
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Habitat niche partitioning by 16 species of Myristicaceae in Amazonian Ecuador by Queenborough, Simon A, Burslem, David F. R. P, Garwood, Nancy C, Valencia, Renato

“…The distribution and spatial pattern of plants in tropical forests have important implications for how species interact with each other and their environments…”
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Allometric relationships between seed mass and seedling characteristics reveal trade-offs for neotropical gap-dependent species by Daws, Matthew I, Ballard, Christopher, Mullins, Christopher E, Garwood, Nancy C, Murray, Brian, Pearson, Timothy R. H, Burslem, David F. R. P

“…A seed size-seed number trade-off exists because smaller seeds are produced in greater number but have a lower probability of establishment. This reduced…”
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Molecular phylogeny of the palm genus Chamaedorea, based on the low-copy nuclear genes PRK and RPB2 by Thomas, Meredith M., Garwood, Nancy C., Baker, William J., Henderson, Sally A., Russell, Stephen J., Hodel, Donald R., Bateman, Richard M.

“…Sequence data from the low-copy nuclear genes encoding phosphoribulokinase (PRK) and the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB2) are used to…”
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Population genetics of the understory fishtail palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti in Belize: high genetic connectivity with local differentiation by Cibrián-Jaramillo, Angélica, Bacon, Christine D, Garwood, Nancy C, Bateman, Richard M, Thomas, Meredith M, Russell, Steve, Bailey, C Donovan, Hahn, William J, Bridgewater, Samuel G M, DeSalle, Rob

“…Developing a greater understanding of population genetic structure in lowland tropical plant species is highly relevant to our knowledge of increasingly…”
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Using GIS techniques to model the distribution of the economically important xaté palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti within the Greater Maya Mountains, Belize by Penn, Malcolm G., Moncrieff, Clive B., Bridgewater, Samuel G. M., Garwood, Nancy C., Bateman, Richard M., Chan, Ivis, Cho, Percival

“…The purpose of this investigation was to model the distribution of the fishtail xaté palm (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti) and to investigate the effectiveness of…”
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