Kyle E. Harms

Curriculum Vitae

Complete CV - pdf

 


EDUCATION

1997  Ph.D.  Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
     Dissertation: Habitat Specialization and Seed-Dispersal Limitation in a Neotropical Forest -
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1989  B.S.  Inter-departmental Program in Biology, Iowa State University
     Honors Thesis: Yearling Dispersal in a Population of South American Guanacos (Lama guanicoe)

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Current (since 2007)  Associate Professor
     Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University

Current (since 2002)  Research Associate
     Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama

2008   Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study & Honorary Research Fellow,
     Department of Botany, LaTrobe University, Australia (on sabbatical leave from LSU)

2002-2007  Assistant Professor
     Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University

2000-2001  Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
     Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

1999-2000  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
     Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara

1997-1999  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
     Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama

CURRENT POSITIONS BY INVITATION ON ADVISORY & EDITORIAL BOARDS, etc.

Since 2009 (3-yr term)  Member of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) Science Committee

Since 2008  Working group participant: “Revisiting Nutrient Limitation in Tropical Forests,”
     National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA

Since 2008  Inaugural Member of the Editorial Board for Acta Biologica Panamensis

Since 2007 (3-yr term)  Member of the NCEAS Science Advisory Board

Since 2005 (two 3-yr terms)  Associate Editor for Journal of Ecology

PUBLICATIONS
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in the spirit of open access to information; please use these for education or research only.
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Ferro, Michael L., Matthew L. Gimmel, Kyle E. Harms & Christopher E. Carlton. In press. The beetle
     community of small oak twigs in Louisiana, with a review of literature featuring Coleoptera from fine woody
     debris. Coleopterists Bulletin.

Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. In press. Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and
     the ecological assembly of high-diversity pine savanna groundcover communities. Ecology.

Yavitt, Joseph B., Kyle E. Harms, Milton Garcia, S. Joseph Wright, Fangliang He & Matt Mirabello. In press. Spatial
     heterogeneity of soil chemical properties in a lowland tropical moist forest, Panama. Australian Journal of Soil
     Research.

Paine, C. E. Timothy & Kyle E. Harms. 2009. Quantifying the effects of seed arrival and environmental conditions
     on tropical seedling community structure. Oecologia 160:139-150.
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Paine, C. E. Timothy, Kyle E. Harms & Jesús Ramos. 2009. Supplemental irrigation increases seedling
     performance and diversity in a tropical forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:171-180.
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Powers, Jennifer S., Rebecca A. Montgomery, E. Carol Adair, Francis Q. Brearley, Saara J. DeWalt, Camila
     T. Castanho, Jerome Chave, Erika Deinert, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Matthew E. Gilbert, José Antonio González-Iturbe,
     Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, H. Ricardo Grau, Kyle E. Harms, Ankila Hiremath, Silvia Iriarte-Vivar, Eric Manzane,
     Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Lourens Poorter, Jean-Baptiste Ramanamanjato, Carl Salk, Amanda Varela, George D.
     Weiblen & Manuel T. Lerdau. 2009. Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of
     litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient. Journal of Ecology
     97:801-811. doi

Bravo, Adriana, Kyle E. Harms, Richard D. Stevens & Louise H. Emmons. 2008. Collpas: Activity hotspots for
     frugivorous bats (Phyllostomidae) in the Peruvian Amazon. Biotropica 40:203-210.
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Kaspari, Michael, Milton N. Garcia, Kyle E. Harms, Mirna Santana, S. Joseph Wright & Joseph B. Yavitt.
     2008. Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest. Ecology Letters 11:35-43.
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Paine, C. E. Timothy, Kyle E. Harms, Stefan A. Schnitzer & Walter P. Carson. 2008. Weak competition among
     tropical tree seedlings: implications for species coexistence. Biotropica 40:432-440.
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Poorter, Lourens, S. Joseph Wright, Horacio Paz, David D. Ackerly, Rick Condit, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez,
     Kyle E. Harms, Juan-Carlos Licona, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Susan J. Mazer, Helene Muller-Landau, Marielos
     Peña-Claros, Campbell O. Webb & Ian Wright. 2008. Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates?
     Evidence from five Neotropical forests. Ecology 89:1908-1920.
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Carlson, Jane E. & Kyle E. Harms. 2007. The benefits of bathing buds: water calyces protect flowers from a
     microlepidopteran herbivore. Biology Letters 3:405-407.
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John, Robert, James W. Dalling, Kyle E. Harms, Joseph B. Yavitt, Robert F. Stallard, Matthew Mirabello, Stephen
     P. Hubbell, Renato Valencia, Hugo Navarette, Martha Vallejo & Robin B. Foster. 2007. Soil nutrients influence
     spatial distributions of tropical tree species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104:864-869.
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Laurance, William F., Henrique E. M. Nascimento, Susan G. Laurance, Ana Andrade, Robert M. Ewers, Kyle E.
     Harms, Regina C. C. Luizão & José E. Ribeiro. 2007. Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the
     Landscape-Divergence Hypothesis. PLoS ONE 10:e1017 (pp. 1-8).
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Wright, Ian J., David D. Ackerly, Frans Bongers, Kyle E. Harms, Guillermo Ibarra-Manriquez, Miguel Martinez-Ramos,
     Susan J. Mazer, H
elene C. Muller-Landau, Horacio Paz, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Lourens Poorter, Miles R. Silman, Corine
     F. Vriesendorp, Cam O. Webb, Mark Westoby & S. Joseph Wright. 2007. Relationships among ecologically-
     important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven Neotropical forests. Annals of Botany 99:1003-1015.
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Carlson, Jane E. & Kyle E. Harms. 2006. The evolution of gender-biased nectar production in hermaphroditic plants.
     Botanical Review 72:179-205.
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Condit, Richard, Peter Ashton, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, H. S. Dattaraja, Stuart Davies, Shameema Esufali, Corneille
     Ewango, Robin Foster, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, Pamela Hall, Kyle E. Harms, Terese Hart,
     Consuelo Hernandez, Stephen Hubbell, Akira Itoh, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, James LaFrankie, Suzanne Loo de Lao,
     Jean-Remy Makana, Md. Nur Supardi Noor, Abdul Rahman Kassim, Sabrina Russo, Raman Sukumar, Cristián Samper,
     Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Sean Thomas, Renato Valencia, Martha Vallejo, Gorky Villa & Tommaso Zillio.
     2006. The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity. Science 313:98-101.
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DeWalt, Saara J., Kalan Ickes, Reuben Nilus, Kyle E. Harms & David F. R. P. Burslem. 2006. Liana habitat
     associations and community structure in a Bornean lowland tropical forest. Plant Ecology 186:203-216.
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Gunatilleke, C. V. S., I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, S. Esufali, K. E. Harms, P. M. S. Ashton, D. F. R. P. Burslem & P. S.
     Ashton. 2006. Species-habitat associations in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest. Journal
     of Tropical Ecology
22:371-384.
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Laurance, William F., Henrique E. M. Nascimento, Susan G. Laurance, Ana Andrade, José E. L. S. Ribeiro, Juan Pablo
     Giraldo, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Richard Condit, Jerome Chave, Kyle E. Harms & Sammya D’Angelo. 2006. Rapid
     decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy of
     Sciences
103:19010-19014.
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Muller-Landau, Helene C., Richard S. Condit, Jerome Chave, Sean Thomas, Stephanie A. Bohlman, Sarayudh
     Bunyavejchewin, Stuart Davies, Robin Foster, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, Kyle E. Harms,
     Terese Hart, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, Abd Rahman Kassim, James V. LaFrankie, Hua Seng Lee, Elizabeth
     Losos, Jean-Remy Makana, Tatsuhiro Ohkubo, Raman Sukumar, I-Fang Sun, Nur Supardi M. N., Sylvester Tan,
     Jill Thompson, Renato Valencia, Gorky Villa Muñoz, Christopher Wills, Takuo Yamakura, George Chuyong,
     Handanakere Shivaramaiah Dattaraja, Shameema Esufali, Pamela Hall, Consuelo Hernandez, David Kenfack,
     Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Duncan Thomas, Martha Isabel Vallejo, & Peter Ashton. 2006.
     Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth, and mortality in tropical forests.
     Ecology Letters 9:575-588.
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Muller-Landau, Helene C., Richard S. Condit, Kyle E. Harms, Christian O. Marks, Sean C. Thomas, Sarayudh
     Bunyavejchewin, George Chuyong, Leonardo Co, Stuart Davies, Robin Foster, Savitri Gunatilleke, Nimal Gunatilleke,
     Terese Hart, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, Abd Rahman Kassim, David Kenfack, James V. LaFrankie, Daniel
     Lagunzad, Hua Seng Lee, Elizabeth Losos, Jean-Remy Makana, Tatsuhiro Ohkubo, Cristian Samper, Raman Sukumar,
     I-Fang Sun, Nur Supardi M. N., Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Jill Thompson, Renato Valencia, Martha Isabel Vallejo,
     Gorky Villa Muñoz, Takuo Yamakura, Jess K. Zimmerman, Handanakere Shivaramaiah Dattaraja, Shameema Esufali,
     Pamela Hall, Fangliang He, Consuelo Hernandez, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Christopher Wills &
     Peter Ashton. 2006. Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and
     equilibrium models. Ecology Letters 9:589-602.
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Wills, Christopher & Kyle Harms. 2006. Species diversity and ecosystem functioning - Response. Science 312:847-848.
    
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Wills, Christopher, Kyle E. Harms, Richard Condit, David King, Jill Thompson, Fangliang He, Helene C. Muller-Landau,
    
Peter Ashton, Elizabeth Losos, Liza Comita, Stephen Hubbell, James LaFrankie, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, H. S.
     Dattaraja, Stuart Davies, Shameema Esufali, Robin Foster, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Pamela Hall, Akira
     Itoh, Robert J
ohn, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Suzanne Loo de Lao, Marie Massa, Cheryl Nath, Md. Nur Supardi Noor,
     Abdul Rahman Kassim, Raman Sukumar, Hebbalalu Satyanarayana Suresh, I-Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Takuo
     Yamakura & Jess Zimmerman. 2006. Non-random processes maintain diversity in tropical forests. Science
     311:527-531.
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Connell, Joseph H., Igor Debski, Catherine A. Gehring, Lloyd Goldwasser, Peter T. Green, Kyle E. Harms,
     Peter Juniper & Tad Theimer. 2005. Dynamics of seedling recruitment in an Australian tropical rainforest.
     Pp. 486-506 in Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick & Craig Moritz, eds. Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present,
     and Future. Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Connell, Joseph H., Terence P. Hughes, Carden C. Wallace, Jason E. Tanner, Kyle E. Harms & Alexander M. Kerr.
     2004. A long-term study of competition and diversity of corals. Ecological Monographs 74:179-210.
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Harms, Kyle E., Jennifer S. Powers, Rebecca A. Montgomery. 2004. Variation in small sapling density,
     understory cover and resource availability in four Neotropical forests. Biotropica 36:40-51.
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Muller-Landau, Helene C., James W. Dalling, Kyle E. Harms, S. Joseph Wright, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell
     & Robin B. Foster. 2004. Seed dispersal and density-dependent seed and seedling survival in Trichilia
     tuberculata and Miconia argentea. Pp. 340-362 in Elizabeth C. Losos & Egbert G. Leigh, eds. Tropical Forest Diversity
     and Dynamism: Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network. Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Gunatilleke, C. V. S., Shameema Esufali, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, Kyle E. Harms & David Burslem. 2003. Species-
     habitat associations in the forest dynamics plot at Sinharaja, Sri Lanka. Inside CTFS: Newsletter of the Center
     for Tropical Forest Science
. Summer Volume, pp. 4-5, 11.
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Harms, Kyle E. 2003. Torus-translation tests: Trees on a donut. Inside CTFS: Newsletter of the Center for Tropical
     Forest Science
. Summer Volume, pp. 3, 10.
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Harms, Kyle E. & Jessica R. Eberhard. 2003. Roosting behavior of the Brown-throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax)
     and roost locations on four southern Caribbean islands. Ornitología Neotropical 14:79-89.
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Harms, Kyle E. & C. E. Timothy Paine. 2003. Regeneración de árboles tropicales e implicaciones para el manejo de
     bosques naturales. Ecosistemas 12:15-30.
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Harms, Kyle E. 2002. El tamaño de la semilla como una adaptación al daño físico. Pg. 349 in Manuel Guariguata &
     Gustavo Kattan, eds. Ecology of Neotropical Rainforests. Ediciones LUR, Cartago, Costa Rica.
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Harms, Kyle E. 2002. Limitación en la dispersión. Pp. 347-348 in Manuel Guariguata & Gustavo Kattan, eds
     Ecology of Neotropical Rainforests. Ediciones LUR, Cartago, Costa Rica.
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Harms, Kyle E., Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell & Robin B. Foster. 2001. Habitat associations of trees and
     shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot. Journal of Ecology 89:947-959.
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Gilbert, Gregory S., Kyle E. Harms, David N. Hamill & Stephen P. Hubbell. 2001. Effects of seedling size, El Niño
     drought, seedling density, and distance to nearest conspecific adult on 6-year survival of Ocotea whitei seedlings
     in Panama. Oecologia 127:509-516.
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Harms, Kyle E., S. Joseph Wright, Osvaldo Calderón, Andrés Hernández & Edward Allen Herre. 2000. Pervasive
     density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest. Nature 404:493-495.
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Harms, Kyle E. & James W. Dalling. 2000. A bruchid beetle and a viable seedling from a single diaspore of Attalea
     butyraceaJournal of Tropical Ecology 16:319-325.
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Dalling, James W. & Kyle E. Harms. 1999. Damage tolerance and cotyledonary resource use in the tropical tree
     Gustavia superba. Oikos 85:257-264.
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Hubbell, Stephen P., Robin B. Foster, Sean T. O’Brien, Kyle E. Harms, Richard Condit, Benjamin Wechsler, S.
     Joseph Wright & Suzanne Loo de Lao. 1999. Light gap disturbances, recruitment limitation, and tree diversity in
     a Neotropical forest. Science 283:554-557.
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Dalling, James W., Kyle E. Harms & Rafael Aizprúa. 1997. Seed damage tolerance and seedling resprouting ability
     of Prioria copaifera in Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13:481-490.
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Harms, Kyle E. 1997. Pruebas estadísticas útiles para investigaciones de campo. Natura (Universidad Autónoma de
     Chiriquí, Panama) 9:7-9.
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Harms, Kyle E. & James W. Dalling. 1997. Damage and herbivory tolerance through resprouting as an advantage of
     large seed size in tropical trees and lianas. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13:617-621.
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Harms, Kyle E., James W. Dalling & Rafael Aizprúa. 1997. Regeneration from cotyledons in Gustavia superba
     (Lecythidaceae). Biotropica 29:234-237.
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Dalling, James W., Kyle E. Harms, Jessica R. Eberhard & Indra Candanedo. 1996. Natural history and uses of tagua
     (Phytelephas seemannii) in Panama. Principes  40:16-23.
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Harms, Kyle E. 1996. ¿Cómo se miden los patrones de dispersión? Pp. 70-74 in Gregory S. Gilbert & Monica Mejía,
     eds. Manual para las Investigaciones de Biología de Campo, Segunda Edición. Smithsonian Tropical Research
     Institute, Panama.
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Harms, Kyle E. 1996. The supply-side ecology of the forest on BCI: A role for dispersal-limitation? Inside CTFS: 
     Newsletter of the Center for Tropical Forest Science
. Summer Volume, pg. 9.
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Harms, Kyle E. & Annette Aiello. 1995. Seed-feeding tropical clear-wing moths: Aberrant behavior or common habit? 
     Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 49:43-48.
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Harms, Kyle E. & James W. Dalling. 1995. Seasonal consistency despite variation in germination timing for
     Scheelea zonensis. Principes 39:104-106.
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Harms, Kyle E. & Jorge A. Ahumada. 1992. Observations of an adult hummingbird provisioning an incubating adult. 
     Wilson Bulletin 104:369-370.
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Harms, Kyle E., Les D. Beletsky & Gordon H. Orians. 1991. Conspecific nest parasitism in three species of New
     World blackbirds. The Condor 93:967-974.
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FEDERAL GRANTS

2007-2009 National Park Service ($94,000)
     Lowell E. Urbatsch (PI) & Kyle E. Harms (co-PI)
    
Groundtruthing vegetation at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (JELA) in
     support of LiDAR-based vegetation assessment for the Gulf Coast Network (GULN)

2006-2009  National Science Foundation ($450,000)
     Kyle E. Harms (PI) & William F. Laurance (co-PI)
     Rainforest fragmentation and its impacts on Amazonian tree communities
    
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2005-2008  National Science Foundation ($400,000)
     Kyle E. Harms (PI) & William J. Platt, III (co-PI)
     Ecological processes influencing local biodiversity in species-rich pine savanna groundcover
    
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2003-2004  National Science Foundation ($55,000)
     Kyle E. Harms (PI)
     An international training workshop on tropical soil properties and hydrology linked to existing
     forest dynamics projects
    
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2002-2005  National Science Foundation ($609,379, sum of 4 separate awards)
     James W. Dalling, Kyle E. Harms, Robert F. Stallard & Joseph B. Yavitt (collaborating PIs)
     Collaborative Research: Effects of soil-borne reources on the structure and dynamics of lowland
     tropical forests
    
Read the abstract on NSF's website

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