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Tropical tree height and crown allometries for the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama: a comparison of alternative hierarchical models incorporating interspecific variation in relation to life history traits
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843-03092, Balboa,
Ancón, Panama
S. Joseph Wright
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843-03092, Balboa,
Ancón, Panama
Stephanie A. Bohlman
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843-03092, Balboa,
Ancón, Panama
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Stephen W. Pacala
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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