Emilio Vilanova¹, Gregory J Ettl², Hirma Ramirez-Angulo³, Armando Torres-Lezama³, Gerardo Aymard⁴, Luis E. Gamez⁵, Néstor Gutiérrez³, Cristabel Durán⁶, Lionel Hernández⁷, Rafael Herrera Jr⁸, Geertje van der Heijden⁹ and Oliver L. Phillips¹⁰, (1)University of Washington Seattle, Menlo Park, California, United States, (2)University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Universidad de Los Andes, Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal - INDEFOR, Mérida, Venezuela, (4)Universidad Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora (UNELLEZ), Guanare, Venezuela, (5)Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, (6)University of Freiburg, Institute of Forest Sciences. Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg, Germany, (7)Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana (UNEG), Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, (8)Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela, (9)University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (10)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom