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Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species by Condit, Richard, Ashton, Peter S., Baker, Patrick, Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Gunatilleke, Savithri, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Hubbell, Stephen P., Foster, Robin B., Itoh, Akira, LaFrankie, James V., Lee, Hua Seng, Losos, Elizabeth, Manokaran, N., Sukumar, R., Yamakura, Takuo

“…Fully mapped tree census plots of large area, 25 to 52 hectares, have now been completed at six different sites in tropical forests, including dry deciduous to…”
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Geographical distributions in tropical trees: can geographical range predict performance and habitat association in co-occurring tree species by Baltzer, Jennifer L, Davies, Stuart J, Noor, Nur Supardi Md, Kassim, Abdul Rahman, LaFrankie, James V

“…A major floristic and climatic transition from aseasonal to seasonal evergreen tropical forest (the Kangar-Pattani Line; KPL) exists in the Indo-Sundaic region…”
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Application of Digital Field Photographs as Documents for Tropical Plant Inventory by LaFrankie, James V, Chua, Anna I

“…Premise of the study: We tested the credibility and significance of digital field photographs as supplements or substitutes for conventional herbarium…”
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Comparative Ecology of 11 Sympatric Species of Macaranga in Borneo: Tree Distribution in Relation to Horizontal and Vertical Resource Heterogeneity by Davies, Stuart James, Palmiotto, Peter A., Ashton, Peter S., Lee, Hua Seng, Lafrankie, James V.

“…1 Horizontal and vertical heterogeneity of resource availability, coupled with the specialized use of resources by tree species, results in complex patterns of…”
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Spatial distribution patterns of the dominant canopy dipterocarp species in a seasonal dry evergreen forest in western Thailand by Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, LaFrankie, James V, Baker, Patrick J, Kanzaki, Mamoru, Ashton, Peter S, Yamakura, Takuo

“…Population structure and spatial patterns were examined for four species of canopy dipterocarps ( Anisoptera costata, Dipterocarpus alatus, Hopea odorata,…”
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Potential impacts of climate change on tropical Asian forests through an influence on phenology by Corlett, R.T. (Hong Kong Univ. (Hong Kong). Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity), LaFrankie, J.V. Jr

“…Changes in plant phenology will be one of the earliest responses to rapid global climate change and could potentially have serious consequences both for plants…”
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Importance of topography and soil texture in the spatial distribution of two sympatric dipterocarp trees in a Bornean rainforest by Itoh, Akira, Yamakura, Takuo, Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro, Kanzaki, Mamoru, Palmiotto, Peter A., LaFrankie, James V., Ashton, Peter S., Lee, Hua Seng

“…Relationships between spatial distributions and site conditions, namely topography and soil texture, were analyzed for two congeneric emergent trees,…”
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Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests by Muller-Landau, Helene C., Condit, Richard S., Chave, Jerome, Thomas, Sean C., Bohlman, Stephanie A., Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Davies, Stuart, Foster, Robin, Gunatilleke, Savitri, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Harms, Kyle E., Hart, Terese, Hubbell, Stephen P., Itoh, Akira, Kassim, Abd Rahman, LaFrankie, James V., Lee, Hua Seng, Losos, Elizabeth, Makana, Jean-Remy, Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro, Sukumar, Raman, Sun, I-Fang, Nur Supardi, M. N., Tan, Sylvester, Thompson, Jill, Valencia, Renato, Muñoz, Gorky Villa, Wills, Christopher, Yamakura, Takuo, Chuyong, George, Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramaiah, Esufali, Shameema, Hall, Pamela, Hernandez, Consuelo, Kenfack, David, Kiratiprayoon, Somboon, Suresh, Hebbalalu S., Thomas, Duncan, Vallejo, Martha Isabel, Ashton, Peter

“…The theory of metabolic ecology predicts specific relationships among tree stem diameter, biomass, height, growth and mortality. As demographic rates are…”
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Dynamics of the forest communities at Pasoh and Barro Colorado: comparing two 50–ha plots by Condit, Richard, Ashton, Peter S., Manokaran, N., LaFrankie, James V., Hubbell, Stephen P., Foster, Robin B.

“…Dynamics of the Pasoh forest in Peninsular Malaysia were assessed by drawing a comparison with a forest in Panama, Central America, whose dynamics have been…”
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Distribution patterns of tree species in a Malaysian tropical rain forest by Fangliang, He, Legendre, Pierre, LaFrankie, James V.

“…Spatial patterns of tree species were studied in a 50-ha tropical rain forest plot in the Pasoh forest, Malaysia. This forest is characterized by a high…”
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Species-Area and Species-Individual Relationships for Tropical Trees: A Comparison of Three 50-ha Plots by Condit, Richard, Hubbell, Stephen P., Lafrankie, James V., Sukumar, R., Manokaran, N., Foster, Robin B., Ashton, Peter S.

“…Species-accumulation curves for woody plants were calculated in three tropical forests, based on fully mapped 50-ha plots in wet, old-growth forest in…”
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Contrasting Structure and Composition of the Understory in Species-Rich Tropical Rain Forests by LaFrankie, James V., Ashton, Peter S., Chuyong, George B., Co, Leonardo, Condit, Richard, Davies, Stuart J., Foster, Robin, Hubbell, Stephen P., Kenfack, David, Lagunzad, Daniel, Losos, Elizabeth C., Md. Nor, Noor Supardi, Tan, Sylvester, Thomas, Duncan W., Valencia, Renato, Villa, Gorky

“…In large samples of trees ≥1 cm dbh (more than 1 million trees and 3000 species), in six lowland tropical forests on three continents, we assigned species with…”
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Habitat Preferences of Aporosa in Two Malaysian Forests: Implications for Abundance and Coexistence by Debski, Igor, David F. R. P. Burslem, Palmiotto, Peter A., Lafrankie, James V., Lee, H. S., Manokaran, N.

“…Theories accounting for the maintenance of high tree diversity in tropical rain forests range from those proposing that tropical trees are highly co-evolved…”
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Species-Area and Species-Individual Relationships for Tropical Trees: A Comparison of Three 50-ha Plots by Condit, Richard, Hubbell, Stephen P., Lafrankie, James V., Sukumar, R., Manokaran, N., Foster, Robin B., Ashton, Peter S.

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Scale dependence of tree abundance and richness in a tropical rain forest, Malaysia by FANGLIANG HE, LAFRANKIE, James V, BO SONG

“…Abundance and richness are the two fundamental components of speciesdiversity. They represent two distinct types of variables of which the formerisadditive…”
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The understorey palm Licuala (Arecaceae) suppresses tree regeneration in a lowland forest in Asia by LaFrankie, James V., Saw, L. G.

“…The establishment and growth of a young tree requires a microsite that falls within a range of specific environmental conditions. Microsites will to some…”
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CONTRASTING STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE UNDERSTORY IN SPECIES-RICH TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS by LaFrankie, James V., Ashton, Peter S., Chuyong, George B., Co, Leonardo, Condit, Richard, Davies, Stuart J., Foster, Robin, Hubbell, Stephen P., Kenfack, David, Lagunzad, Daniel, Losos, Elizabeth C., Nor, Noor Supardi Md, Tan, Sylvester, Thomas, Duncan W., Valencia, Renato, Villa, Gorky

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Population dynamics of some tropical trees that yield non-timber forest products by LaFrankie, J.V

“…The population biology of Aquilaria malaccensis, one source of gharu, and Cinnamomum mollissimum, one source of wild cinnamon, was studied in a 50 ha permanent…”
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Application of digital field photographs as documents for tropical plant inventory1 by LaFrankie, James V., Chua, Anna I.

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HABITAT PREFERENCES OF APOROSA IN TWO MALAYSIAN FORESTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ABUNDANCE AND COEXISTENCE by Debski, Igor, Burslem, David F. R. P., Palmiotto, Peter A., Lafrankie, James V., Lee, H. S., Manokaran, N.

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