A thermal tolerance trait distinguishes microclimatic niches of tropical trees

Tyeen Taylor1, Marielle Smith2, Marco D Visser3, Sean McMahon4, Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira5, Norbert Kunert6, Valentine Herrmann7, Helene C Muller-Landau8, Gang Shao2, Scott C Stark2 and Kenneth Feeley1, (1)University of Miami, Biology Department, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Edgewater, MD, United States, (5)Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States, (6)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, United States, (7)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States, (8)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama