Response to comment on "functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an amazonian forest"

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5930, 2009, Pages

  Kraft, Nathan J B ^a   Ackerly, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; LAKE; NOTE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SPECIES; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

EID: 66249132724     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1169885     Document Type: Note

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11. We have benefited from conversations with J. Lake, A. Ostling, W. Cornwell, and S. Kembel about these and related issues. Our response was improved by the comments of two anonymous reviewers.