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Landscape-scale changes in forest structure and functional traits along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient
G. P. Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
C. B. Anderson
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
R. E. Martin
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
D. E. Knapp
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
R. Tupayachi
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
F. Sinca
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
Y. Malhi
School of Environment and Geography, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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