PLoS One. 2015; 10(4): e0122905.
PMCID: PMC4391938
Published online 2015 Apr 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122905
Tropical Rain Forest Structure, Tree Growth and Dynamics along a 2700-m Elevational Transect in Costa Rica David B. Clark, 1,* Johanna Hurtado, 2 and Sassan S. Saatchi3 Runguo Zang, Academic Editor 1 Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America 2 La Selva Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Heredia, Costa Rica 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America Chinese Academy of Forestry, CHINA Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Conceived and designed the experiments: DBC JH SSS. Performed the experiments: DBC JH. Analyzed the data: DBC JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBC JH. Wrote the paper: DBC JH SSS. * E-mail:
[email protected] Received 2014 Dec 9; Accepted 2015 Feb 24. Copyright notice This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.
Abstract
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Introduction
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Methods
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Results
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Biodiversity and life form patterns
Forest physical structure
Dynamics and productivity
Temporal patterns in structure and process
Discussion
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Results synthesis and comparison with other tropical elevational transects
Issues facing forest ecology projects on tropical elevational transects
Biased Sampling
Missing climate data
Carbon stocks estimation
Species-level research on elevational transects
Conclusions
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Supporting Information
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S1 File
S1 Dataset
S2 Dataset
Acknowledgments
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Funding Statement
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Data Availability
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References
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