Rethinking plant functional types in Earth System Models: pan-tropical analysis of tree survival across environmental gradients

Daniel Jacob Johnson1, Jessica Fay Needham2, Chonggang Xu1, Stuart J Davies3, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin4, Christian P Giardina5, Richard Condit6, Susan Cordell7, Creighton McMaster Litton8, Stephen Hubbell9, Abd Rahman B Kassim10, Lum K.Y. Shawn11, Musalmah Nasardin12, Perry Ong13, Rebecca Ostertag14, Lawren Sack15, Sylvester Kheng San Tan16, Sandra Yap13, Nathan G G McDowell1 and Sean McMahon17, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (4)Royal Thai Forest Department, Silvicultural Research Division, Forest Research Office, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Hilo, HI, United States, (6)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, (7)USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI, United States, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, (11)Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education, Singapore, Singapore, (12)Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Forestry and Environment Division, Selangor, Malaysia, (13)University of the Philippines Diliman, Institute of Biology, Quezon City, Philippines, (14)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (16)Sarawak Forest Department, Sarawak, Malaysia, (17)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Balboa, Panama
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