Diversity, distribution and dynamics of large trees across an old-growth lowland tropical rain forest landscape.

Large trees, here defined as ≥60 cm trunk diameter, are the most massive organisms in tropical rain forest, and are important in forest structure, dynamics and carbon cycling. The status of large trees in tropical forest is unclear, with both increasing and decreasing trends reported. We sampled acr...

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Main Authors: David B Clark, Antonio Ferraz, Deborah A Clark, James R Kellner, Susan G Letcher, Sassan Saatchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224896