| Principal Investigator(s) |
Nationality of PI |
Proposal Title |
Study Site |
available only for finished research |
| Cycle: August 2002 |
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John, Robert
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India
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Growth and survival of trees in relation to canopy closure in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot
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BCI, Panama
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final report
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Madawala Weerasinghe, H. M. Sumedha P.
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Sri Lanka
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A topographic comparison of soil nutrient status in relation to habitat specialization in the 25-ha Forest Dynamics Plot at Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
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Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
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final report
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Chuyong, George; Kenfack, David; Thomas, Duncan
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Cameroon
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Habitat specificity and diversity in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot, Cameroon
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Korup, Cameroon
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final report
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Muller-Landau, Helene
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USA
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Seed rain in tropical forests: Patterns, causes, and consequences for forest dynamics
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Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama; Lambir, Malaysia
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final report
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Wills, Christopher
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UK
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Comparing interspecific interactions between tree species in the New- and Old World tropical forests
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Lambir, Malaysia; BCI, Panama
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final report
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Hardesty, Denise
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USA
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Ecological and evolutionary genetics of two vertebrate-dispersed tropical trees, Simarouba amara and Symphonia globulifera
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Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama
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final report
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Stacy, Elizabeth
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USA
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Understanding the origin of tropical tree species richness: A phylogenetic analysis of ecological data from Sinharaja’s Forest Dynamics Plot
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Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
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final report
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Vencatesan, Jayshree
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India
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Forest reserves as refugia for human impacted biodiversity: A case study of the Forest Dynamics Plot in Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, India
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Mudumalai, India
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final report
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Moscoso, Alejandra
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Ecuador
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Contribution to the taxonomical knowledge of the Myrtaceae, with special reference to the genus Calyptranthes Saw., in the Yasuní Dynamics Forest Project
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Yasuni, Ecuador
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final report
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Zimmerman, Jess
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USA
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Phenologies of tropical forests: The role of light limitation
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Luquillo, Puerto Rico
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final report
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Baker, Patrick
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USA
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Reconstructing historical disturbance regimes and forest stand dynamics in the forest mosaic of the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, western Thailand
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HKK, Thailand
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final report
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Harrison, Rhett
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UK
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Comparative community-wide studies of forest reproduction and pollinators in Old and New World tropical forests
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BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador; Khao Chong, Thailand; Pasoh, Malaysia; Lambir, Malaysia
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final report
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Metz, Margaret Rowan
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USA
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Seedling dynamics in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
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Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
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Engelbrecht, Bettina; Comita, Liza
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German
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Linking seedling drought resistance with species habitat associations: Dry season mortality
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BCI, Panama
|
final report
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Perez, Rolando; Aguilar, Salomon; Deago, Jose
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Panama
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Preliminary study to evaluate the arboreal species composition, abundance, and diversity in the Panamanian forests
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Panama
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final report
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Dick, Christopher; Austerlitz, Frederic; Bermingham, Eldredge
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USA
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Pollen dispersal limitation in tropical rainforests: A comparative study in BCI and Yasuni
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BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
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Watkins, Jason
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USA
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Investigation of oomycete fungi believed to be involved in Janzen-Connell effects observed on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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BCI, Panama
|
final report
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Zapfack, Louis; Achoundong, Gaston; Nkongmeneck, Bernard Aloys
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Cameroon
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Herbaceous and epiphytic flora of the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot in Cameroon
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Korup, Cameroon
|
final report
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Munoz, Gorky Villa
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Ecuador
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The Brownea grandiceps species complex used to study modes of speciation in understory rain forest trees
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Yasuni, Ecuador; Venezuela
|
final report
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Powers, Jennifer S.
|
USA
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A mechanistic understanding of the responses of soil carbon pools in tropical forests to increasing global temperatures
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BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador; HKK, Thailand; Khao Chong, Thailand; Costa Rica
|
final report
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Davidar, Priya; Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N.; Gunatilleke, C.V.S.
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India
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Comparison of fruit characteristics, dispersal syndromes and seed dispersal in lowland rain forests of the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
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India; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
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final report
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| Cycle: August 2003 |
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Baillie, Ian
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UK
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An investigation of the contribution of reserve nutrients and other subsoil attributes to the edaphic environments of two climatically contrasting CTFS plots
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Lambir, Malaysia; HKK, Thailand
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final report
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Bohlman, Stephanie
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US
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Structure and species composition of the forest canopy and its impact on tree growth: combining aerial photographs with Forest Dynamics Plot data
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BCI, Panama
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final report
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Brenes, Tania
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Costa Rica
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Herbivore pressure, Inga chemistry, toxicity and defensive ants: Comparison of the tropical communities
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Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama
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final report
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F. Athanasius, Nkwatoh
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Cameroon
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A proposal on the assessment of Non-Timber Forest Products economy potentials in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot
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Korup, Cameroon
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final report
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Garrett, Karen
|
USA
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Invasibility of tropical forest by pathogens
|
BCI, Panama
|
final report
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Hamann, Hillary
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USA
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Nutrient movement and loss by differing runoff pathways in tropical forests soil: an inter site comparison of CTFS tropical forest plots
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Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama; KM41, Brazil; HKK, Thailand; Khao Ban Tat, Thailand; Pasoh, Malaysia; Lambir, Malaysia
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final report
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Hiremath, Ankila
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India
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Soil resources in relation to species distribution and dynamics in Indian tropical dry forest
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Mudumalai, India
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final report
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King, David
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USA
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Tropical tree growth in relation to neighborhood competition, crow size and illumination and irregularities in tree form
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Lambir and Pasoh, Malaysia
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final report
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Makana, Jean- Remy
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Dem. Rep. of Congo
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Testing hypotheses on monospecific dominance in a tropical forest using large mapped plots data and seedling manipulation experiments in the Ituri Forest, Central Africa
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Ituri, Dem. Rep. Congo
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final report
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Sautu, Adriana
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Argentina
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Tree seed dominancy in the Panama Canal Watershed proposal
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Panama Watershed Canal
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final report
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Schnitzer, Stefan
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USA
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The changing role of lianas and their contribution to tropical forest complexity and biomass: A multi site comparison
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Lambir and Pasoh, Malaysia; HKK and Doi Inthanon, Thailand
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final report
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Suresh, H.S.
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India
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Reconstruction of climatic and fire of a tropical dry forest through tree ring analysis: The Mundumalai Forest Dynamics Plot
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Mudumalai, India
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final report
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Tan, Sylvester; Itoh, Akira; LaFrankie, James
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Malaysia
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Development of botanical identification resources for Lambir hyperdiverse 52 hectare plot
|
Lambir, Malaysia
|
final report
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Thomas, Duncan
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UK
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Using large forest dynamics plots to test methods for location areas of high botanical interest
|
Korup, Cameroon
|
final report
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Thomas, Sean
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USA
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Leaf optical scans for rapid, comprehensive ecophysiological surveys of tropical tree floras: Characterization and cross plot comparisons of BCI, Pasoh and Ituri
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BCI, Panama; Pasoh, Malaysia; Ituri, Dem. Rep. Congo
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final report
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Yoneda, Tsuyoshi; Kuwahara,Takanori
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Japan
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Study on carbon cycling of a mature seasonal tropical rain forest in Huai Kha Khaeng, Thailand, with special reference to spatio-temporal relationships between growth and decay systems
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HKK, Thailand
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final report
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| Cycle: February 2004 |
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Aguilar, Zornitza
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Ecuadorian
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Influence of the indigenous communities on the conservation of Ungurahua palm
|
Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
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Burslem, David; Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N.
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UK, Sri Lankan
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Ecological drivers of mast fruiting in Dipterocarps
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Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
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final report
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Egbe, Andrew
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Cameroon
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Forest disturbance and natural regeneration in an African rainforest at Koru, Cameroon
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Korup, Cameroon
|
final report
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Heartsill-Scalley, Tamara
|
USA (Puerto Rico)
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Characterization of riparian zones in tropical, montane rainforest: Quantifying vegetation composition and litter input
|
Luquillo, Puerto Rico
|
final report
|
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Jadhav, Yogesh
|
India
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Modeling spatio-temporal populations of invasive plant species and their ecological impacts on forest sustainability and Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary (India)
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Mudumalai, India
|
final report
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Lohman, David
|
USA
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The role of host plant specificity and spatial dynamics in the biodiversity of a tropical herbivore guild
|
Khao Chong, Thailand
|
final report
|
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Lopez, Omar
|
Panama
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The interaction of light and soil moisture availability in the photosynthetic performance of tropical tree seedlings: Implications for seedling growth and survival in seasonal tropical forests
|
BCI, Panama
|
final report
|
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Nkongolo, Nsalambi
|
Dem. Rep. Congo
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Spatial distributions of soil properties in Ituri Forest: Impacts on canopy species and potential for nitrous oxide emissions
|
Ituri, DR Congo
|
final report
|
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Parker, Geoffrey
|
USA
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Comparative study of tropical forest canopy structure using a ground based LIDAR
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BCI, Luquillo, Yasuni, BDFFP-Manaus, Pasoh, HKK & Khao Chong - Thailand
|
final report
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Portugal, Ana
|
Bolivia
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Effects of habitat on pteriphyte distribution in the forest dynamics plot on BCI
|
BCI, Panama
|
final report
|
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Queenborough, Simon
|
UK
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Reproductive behavior of Mystecaceae in Yasuni, Amazonian Ecuador
|
Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
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Russo, Sabrina
|
USA
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Is there a functional basis for edaphically associated floristic variation in a Bornean Rainforest?
|
Lambir, Sarawak, Malaysia
|
final report
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Thompson, Jill
|
UK
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Seedling dynamics in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot and parameters for a SORTIE model
|
Luquillo, Puerto Rico
|
final report
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| Cycle: August 2004 |
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Chave, Jérôme
|
France
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Contribution of tropical forest trees to the carbon cycle: Refining biomass estimates
|
Yasuni, Ecuador; La Planada, Colombia; Korup, Cameroon; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
|
final report
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Chuyong, George; Kenfack, David; Thomas, Duncan
|
Cameroon
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Habitat specificity and diversity in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot, Cameroon
|
Korup, Cameroon
|
final report
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Hooper, Elaine R.
|
Canada
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Effect of forest fragmentation on seed dispersal and forest regeneration at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project site in the Central Amazon
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BDFFP, Manaus-Brazil
|
final report
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Ichie, Tomoaki
|
Japan
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Soil-related physiological and morphological adaptation in Dipterocarp rain forest species in Borneo
|
Lambir, Sarawak-Malaysia
|
final report
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King, David Alan
|
USA
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Wood density and adult tree height in Malaysian forests
|
Pasoh, Malaysia; Lambir, Sarawak-Malaysia
|
final report
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Linder, Joshua M.
|
USA
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Differential vulnerability of primates to hunting in Korup National Park, Cameroon: Implications for primate conservation
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Korup, Cameroon
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final report
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Lyon, Mandela
|
USA
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Dicot leaf morphology in tropical forests: Determining the significance of climate, ecology, and evolutionary history in shaping leaves
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BCI, Panama; Korup, Cameroon; Lambir, Sarawak-Malaysia; Pasoh, Malaysia
|
final report
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Mullins, Chris
|
UK
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Development of a protocol to characterize soil drought stress for use in within- and among-site comparisons of the CTFS Forest Dynamics Plots
|
BCI, Panama
|
final report
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Nkongolo, Nsalambi V.
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Dem. Rep. of Congo
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Spatial distribution of soil properties in Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Ituri, Dem. Rep. of Congo
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final report
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F. Athanasius, Nkwatoh
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Cameroon
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Assessment of Non-Timber Forest Products economic potentials in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot, Mundemba Cameroon
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Korup, Cameroon
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final report
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Pakkad, Greuk; Kanzaki, Mamoru; Sringernyuang, Kraingsak
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Thailand
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Genetic variation and gene flow of Castanopsis acuminatissima (Bl.) A. DC. in Doi Inthanon National Park Forest Dynamic Plot, Thailand
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Doi Inthanon, Thailand
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final report
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Robinson, W. Douglas
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USA
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Linking bird and tree communities in Central and South American forests
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BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador
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final report
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Shamsuddin, Siti Aisah; Marryanna, L.; Saiful Iskandar, K
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Malaysia
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Characterization of plant community in relation to fine-scale variation in topography and water availability in Pasoh 50-ha demography plot
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Pasoh, Malaysia
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final report
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Villa Munoz, Gorky
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Ecuador
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Brownea grandiceps used to study evolutionary processes of diversification in rain forest trees
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Yasuni, Ecuador and Venezuela
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final report
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Weber, Jean
|
France
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Structure of ectomycorrhizal communities in a Dipterocarp forest and its relationship to Dipterocarp distribution
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Pasoh, Malaysia
|
final report
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Yaacob, Adzmi; Rahman Kassim, Abd.; Supardi Md. Noor, Nur
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Malaysia
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Spatial pattern of soil nutrient distribution in the 50-ha plot of Pasoh forest reserve
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Pasoh, Malaysia
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final report
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final report
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| Cycle: August 2005 |
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A. Elizabeth Arnold, Trichur S. Suryanarayanan
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USA
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Multi-scale analysis of tropical microbial diversity: cryptic fungal symbionts of tropical forest trees
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Mudumalai (India); Korup (Cameroon); Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
|
final report
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David Kenfack
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Cameroonian
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Patterns of morphological and molecular diversification in Carapa (Swieteniodeae – Meliaceae)
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Korup, Cameroon Ituri, Congo Surroundings of: Manaus, Brazil; La Planada, Colombia; Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
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Matthew D. Potts and Abd. Rahman Kassim
|
USA
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Grouping Species into Functional Types and Characterizing Species Allometric Relationships in the Pasoh Forest To Aid in the Parameterization of the FORMIND Forest Model
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Pasoh Forest Reserve
|
final report
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Christos Astaras
|
Greek
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Assessment of Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) Feeding Ecology and Food Availability in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon
|
Korup, Cameroon
|
final report
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Jess K. Zimmerman
|
USA
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Long-Term Variation in Plant Reproduction and Seedling Establishment in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot
|
Luquillo, Puerto Rico
|
final report
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Hugo Romero-Saltos
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Ecuadorian
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Initial inventory of lianas in the 50 ha plot of Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
|
Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
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Jianwu Tang
|
P.R. China
|
Canopy transpiration, stomatal conductance and wind effects in a tropical forest in Taiwan
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Nanjenshan, Taiwan
|
final report
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Nancy C. Garwood, Joseph Wright, Renato Valencia
|
USA
|
Long-term variation in plant reproduction in an Ecuadorian rainforest
|
Yasuni, Ecuador BCI, Panama
|
final report
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Charles E. Zartman, Kyle E. Harms, Alexandre de Oliveira, Antônia Mesquita Ferreira
|
USA
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Creating Identification Resources for Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, and Seedlings from the Brazilian CTFS Plot
|
Manaus
|
final report
|
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Jennifer L. Baltzer
|
Canadian
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The physiological basis of latitudinal gradients in species diversity: comparisons between everwet and seasonal forests in Malaysia and Thailand
|
Khao Chong Botanical Garden, Thailand and Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia
|
final report
|
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Benjamin L. Turner, Richard D. Bardgett
|
British
|
Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Rainforests: Testing the Theory at Large Spatial Scales
|
BCI.Panama; Bukit, Singapore; Doi Inthanon, Khao Chong , and Huai Kha Khaeng, Thailand; Korup, Cameroon; Lambir, Malaysia Luquillo, Puerto Rico ; Palanan, Philippines; Pasoh, Malaysia; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka; Yasuni, Ec
|
final report
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Alexandre de Oliveira, Kyle E. Harms
|
Brasilian
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Rectifying Taxonomy Between the Two Amazonian CTFS Plots
|
Manaus, Brasil Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
|
|
Britta Denise Hardesty
|
USA
|
Dispersal: Empirical and theoretical considerations of seed arrival, seedling recruitment, and seedling survival in a vertebrate-dispersed tree
|
BCI, Panama
|
final report
|
|
Elaine R. Hooper
|
Canadian
|
Effect of forest fragmentation on seed dispersal and forest regeneration at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project site in the Central Amazon
|
Manaus, Brasil
|
final report
|
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Stefan A. Schnitzer
|
USA
|
Do Edaphic Factors Determine the Abundance of Lianas in Tropical Forests?
|
Thailand (Huai Kha Khaeng and Khao Chong), La Planada and BCI
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final report
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final report
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| Cycle: August 2005 |
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A. Elizabeth Arnold, Trichur S. Suryanarayanan
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USA
|
Multi-scale analysis of tropical microbial diversity: cryptic fungal symbionts of tropical forest trees
|
Mudumalai, India; Korup, Cameroon; Barro Colorado Island, Panama
|
final report
|
|
David Kenfack
|
Cameroonian
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Patterns of morphological and molecular diversification in Carapa (Swieteniodeae – Meliaceae)
|
Korup, Cameroon; Ituri, Congo; Surroundings of:Manaus, Brazil; La Planada, Colombia; Yasuni, Ecuador
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final report
|
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Matthew D. Potts and Abd. Rahman Kassim
|
USA
|
Grouping Species into Functional Types and Characterizing Species Allometric Relationships in the Pasoh Forest To Aid in the Parameterization of the FORMIND Forest Model
|
Pasoh Forest Reserve
|
final report
|
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Christos Astaras
|
Greek
|
Assessment of Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) Feeding Ecology and Food Availability in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon
|
Korup, Cameroon
|
final report
|
|
Jess K. Zimmerman
|
USA
|
Long-Term Variation in Plant Reproduction and Seedling Establishment in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot
|
Luquillo, Puerto Rico
|
final report
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Hugo Romero-Saltos
|
Ecuadorian
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Initial inventory of lianas in the 50 ha plot of Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
|
Yasuni, Ecuador
|
final report
|
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Jianwu Tang
|
P.R. China
|
Canopy transpiration, stomatal conductance and wind effects in a tropical forest in Taiwan
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Nanjenshan, Taiwan
|
final report
|
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Nancy C. Garwood, Joseph Wright, Renato Valencia
|
USA
|
Long-term variation in plant reproduction in an Ecuadorian rainforest
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Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama
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final report
|
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Charles E. Zartman, Kyle E. Harms, Alexandre de Oliveira, Antônia Mesquita Ferreira
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USA
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Creating Identification Resources for Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, and Seedlings from the Brazilian CTFS Plot
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Manaus
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final report
|
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Jennifer L. Baltzer
|
Canadian
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The physiological basis of latitudinal gradients in species diversity: comparisons between everwet and seasonal forests in Malaysia and Thailand
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Khao Chong Botanical Garden, Thailand and Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia
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final report
|
|
Benjamin L. Turner, Richard D. Bardgett
|
British
|
Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Rainforests: Testing the Theory at Large Spatial Scales
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BCI, Panama; Bukit, Singapore; Doi Inthanon, Khao Chong , and Huai Kha Khaeng, Thailand; Korup, Cameroon; Lambir, Malaysia; Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Palanan, Philippines; Pasoh, Malaysia; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka; Yasuni, Ecuador
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final report
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Alexandre de Oliveira, Kyle E. Harms
|
Brasilian
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Rectifying Taxonomy Between the Two Amazonian CTFS Plots
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Manaus, Brasil; Yasuni, Ecuador
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final report
|
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Britta Denise Hardesty
|
USA
|
Dispersal: Empirical and theoretical considerations of seed arrival, seedling recruitment, and seedling survival in a vertebrate-dispersed tree
|
BCI, Panama
|
final report
|
|
Elaine R. Hooper
|
Canadian
|
Effect of forest fragmentation on seed dispersal and forest regeneration at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project site in the Central Amazon
|
Manaus, Brasil
|
final report
|
|
Stefan A. Schnitzer
|
USA
|
Do Edaphic Factors Determine the Abundance of Lianas in Tropical Forests?
|
Huai Kha Khaeng and Khao Chong, Thailand; La Planada, Colombia;
BCI, Panama
|
final report
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| Cycle: 2006 |
| Jeffrey K. Lake |
USA |
Variation in Leaf Functional Traits: Niche Structure, Spatial Patterns and Tree Performance in the Forest at Barro Colorado Island, Panama |
BCI |
final report |
| Nathan Jared Boardman Kraft |
USA |
Creating a species- level leaf trait database for the Yasuni FDP |
Yasuni |
final report |
| Mike Kaspari |
USA |
Towards a spatial ecology of brown food webs: soil nutrients and trees as templates |
Barro Colorado Island, Yasuni |
final report |
| Pascale M. Poussart, Jerome Chave, Margaret S. Devall, |
Canadian |
Extracting age and growth information from tropical ringless trees using seasonally-resolved dendrochemical measurements |
Peninsula Gigante (Panama), La Planada, Yasuní, French Guiana, Korup and Sinharaja |
final report |
| Nadja Rüger |
German |
From tree species characteristics to population and community dynamics – investigations with the individual-based forest model FORMIND |
BCI |
final report |
| Nurfazliza Bt Kamarul Bahrin |
Malaysian |
Species Diversity of Lianas in the 50-ha plot in the Lowland Dipterocarp of Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia |
Pasoh FDP |
final report |
| Simon Mbua Ngale Efange |
Cameroonian |
Correlation of bark phytochemicals from Annickia chlorantha with physiological and environmental variables across a forested African landscape |
Korup Forest Dynamics Plot |
final report |
| Robyn J. Burnham |
USA |
Amazonian Lianas: A Comparison of Two Terra Firme Climber Communities |
Manaus BDFFPand Yasuní |
final report |
| Simon A. Queenborough |
UK |
Reproductive strategies of Myristicaceae in Amazonian Ecuador: Factors affecting fruit production and initiation |
Yasuni |
final report |
| Cycle: 2007 |
| B.M.P. Singhakumara |
Sri Lankan |
Comparative physio-morphological traits of mature-phase trees in a |
Sinharaja |
final report |
| KG Peay & TD Bruns |
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Assemblage structure, host preferences and edaphic specialization of |
Lambir |
final report |
| David Alan King |
USA |
Inferring Height Growth Histories From Leaf Scars in Palms |
Barro Colorado Island and Fort Sherman Canopy Crane |
final report |
| Hazel T. Consunji |
Filipino |
Do edaphic factors influence floristic and performance variation of trees in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Palanan, Philippines? |
Palanan, Philippines |
final report |
| Cycle: 2008 |
| Yu-Yun Chen |
Taiwan, Republic of China |
A test of density dependence in various life stage transitions in a lowland dipterocarp forest: contrasting species performance between general flowering and non general flowering years. |
Pasoh (Malaysia) |
final report |
| Christopher Dick |
USA |
Well dispersed or well disguised? A curatorial initiative focused on 85 tree species shared
between BCI and Yasuní |
BCI, Yasuni and Manaus |
final report |
| David Greenberg & SUSAN J. MAZER |
USA |
Surface flow, solar radiation, and tree distributions: can we untangle the effects of water and light on tropical forest community structure? |
Yasuin, Korup & Sinharaja |
final report |
| Andy Jones & Patrick Jansen |
USA |
Density-dependent reproduction and pollen flow in a common Neotropical tree: a landscape-scale study of Jacaranda copaia on Barro Colorado Island, Panama |
BCI |
final report |
| Kho Lip Khoon, Yadvinder Malhi, Sylvester Tan Kheng San |
Malaysian |
Exploring Belowground Productivity and Carbon Cycling of Tropical Forest in the 52-ha Lambir Hills Forest Dynamics Plot |
Lambir |
final report |
| Eric Manzane |
Panamenian |
Linking liana seedling population ecology at regional and local scale in the Panama Isthmus |
BCI & Watershed plots |
final report |
| Adriana Maria Zanforlin Martini |
Brazilian |
Do sympatric species of Myrtaceae diverge in their germination requirements in a restinga forest? |
Ilha do Cardoso State Park (ICSP), Brazil |
final report |
| Jian Zhang |
PR China |
The Role of Seed Morphology on Seed Dispersal and Forest Regeneration in a 25 ha Old-growth Temperate Forest Plot |
A 25 ha Temperate Forest Plot in Changbai Mountain in Northeastern China |
final report |
| Cycle: 2009 |
| Luciana Alves |
Brazilian |
Assessment of aboveground carbon pools of a tropical moist forest (Ilha do Cardoso, Brazil) |
Ihla do Cardozo |
final report |
| Robyn Burnham |
USA |
Liana diversity and abundance on ten half-hectare plots in PDBFF (CTFS) and PPBIO sites near Manaus, Brazil |
BDFFP & near sites |
final report |
| Faith Inman-Narahari |
USA |
Seed Rain and Seedling Recruitment in Hawai’i |
Laupahoehoe, Hawai’ |
final report |
| Isabelle Witte |
Canadian |
Are boreal forests more structurally complex than temperate or tropical forests, and at which scales? A comparison of tropical, temperate, and boreal mixedwood systems |
BCI |
final report |
| Britta Denise Hardesty |
USA |
Where have all the parents gone – using inverse modeling to predict the location of unobserved parents in tropical forests |
BCI |
final report |
| John Parker |
USA |
Impacts of alien plant invasions and overabundant deer on forest regeneration and community dynamics in a temperate deciduous forest |
SERC |
final report |
| Nadja Rueger |
German |
Parameterization of an individual-based forest model for Barro Colorado Island, Panama |
BCI |
final report |
| Liu Xioajuan |
Chinese |
Relationships between traits and species distribution: a BCI-GTS comparison |
BCI & Gutianshan |
final report |
| Yong Tang |
Chinese |
Seeds are washed away: the role of streams in the seed dynamics in a 20 ha Dipterocarp rainforest |
Xishuangbanna |
final report |
| Cycle: 2010 |
| Eadaoin M.I. Quinn |
US |
Does age-related crown thinning occur in canopy-dominant tropical trees? |
BCI |
final report |
| Siewe Siewe Siewe and Jacqueline Vadjunec |
Cameroon |
Degradation and carbon stocks dynamics: An analysis of the anthropogenic impact on deforestation and degradation in the Korup National Park |
Korup |
final report |
| Lei Chen |
China |
The role of density dependence in community assembly: Implications from adult tree patt ern and seedling dynamics in both subtropical and tropical forest |
Gutianshan |
final report |
| Erin Spear |
US |
Agents of change: Identifying phytopathogens and their contributions to tree diversity |
BCI |
final report |
| Madhava Meegaskumbura and Suyama Meegaskumbura |
Sri Lanka |
Determining microclimatic envelopes and monitoring populations of Sri Lankan Shrub-Frogs in Sinharaja 25 ha. plot to understand fi ner scale determinants of their distribution, reproduction and survival. |
Sinharaja |
final report |
| David L. Gorchov, Melissa K. McCormick, Dennis F. Whigham |
US |
Exotic Plant Invasion in Temperate Deciduous Forest: Patterns and processes |
SERC |
final report |
| Neal Enright |
Australia |
Understanding the population dynamics of Nageia motleyi (Podocarpaceae) in lowland tropical rainforests of South-east Asia |
Pasoh |
final report |
| Gonçalo Ferraz and Cintia Cornelius |
Brazil |
Predicting occurrence of cavity-nesting birds from tree demographic data. |
Manaus |
final report |
| Steven W. Kembel, Jessica L. Green |
Canada |
Quantifying the scaling of bacterial phyllosphere diversity: The role of space, environment, and host plant attributes |
BCI |
final report |
| Pimonrat Tiansawat |
Malaysian |
Ecological signifi cance of seed traits in the genus Macaranga |
Lambir |
final report |
