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Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. / Pos, Edwin; de Souza Coelho, Luiz; de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes et al.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2859, 17.02.2023.

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Pos, E, de Souza Coelho, L, de Andrade Lima Filho, D, Salomão, RP, Amaral, IL, de Almeida Matos, FD, Castilho, CV, Phillips, OL, Guevara, JE, de Jesus Veiga Carim, M, López, DC, Magnusson, WE, Wittmann, F, Irume, MV, Martins, MP, Sabatier, D, da Silva Guimarães, JR, Molino, J-F, Bánki, OS, Piedade, MTF, Pitman, NCA, Mendoza, AM, Ramos, JF, Hawes, JE, Almeida, EJ, Barbosa, LF, Cavalheiro, L, dos Santos, MCV, Luize, BG, de Leão Novo, EMM, Vargas, PN, Silva, TSF, Venticinque, EM, Manzatto, AG, Reis, NFC, Terborgh, J, Casula, KR, Coronado, ENH, Montero, JC, Marimon, BS, Marimon-Junior, BH, Feldpausch, TR, Duque, A, Baraloto, C, Arboleda, NC, Engel, J, Petronelli, P, Zartman, CE, Killeen, TJ, Vasquez, R, Mostacedo, B, Assis, RL, Schöngart, J, Castellanos, H, de Medeiros, MB, Simon, MF, Andrade, A, Camargo, JL, Demarchi, LO, Laurance, WF, Laurance, SGW, de Sousa Farias, E, Lopes, MA, Magalhães, JLL, Nascimento, HEM, de Queiroz, HL, Aymard, GAC, Brienen, R, Revilla, JDC, Costa, FRC, Quaresma, A, Vieira, ICG, Cintra, BBL, Stevenson, PR, Feitosa, YO, Duivenvoorden, JF, Mogollón, HF, Ferreira, LV, Comiskey, JA, Draper, F, de Toledo, JJ, Damasco, G, Dávila, N, García-Villacorta, R, Lopes, A, Vicentini, A, Noronha, JC, Barbosa, FR, de Sá Carpanedo, R, Emilio, T, Levis, C, de Jesus Rodrigues, D, Schietti, J, Souza, P, Alonso, A, Dallmeier, F, Gomes, VHF, Lloyd, J, Neill, D, de Aguiar, DPP, Araujo-Murakami, A, Arroyo, L, Carvalho, FA, de Souza, FC, do Amaral, DD, Feeley, KJ, Gribel, R, Pansonato, MP, Barlow, J, Berenguer, E, Ferreira, J, Fine, PVA, Guedes, MC, Jimenez, EM, Licona, JC, Mora, MCP, Peres, CA, Zegarra, BEV, Cerón, C, Henkel, TW, Maas, P, Silveira, M, Stropp, J, Thomas-Caesar, R, Baker, TR, Daly, D, Dexter, KG, Householder, JE, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Pennington, T, Paredes, MR, Fuentes, A, Pena, JLM, Silman, MR, Tello, JS, Chave, J, Valverde, FC, Di Fiore, A, Hilário, RR, Phillips, JF, Rivas-Torres, G, van Andel, TR, von Hildebrand, P, Barbosa, EM, de Matos Bonates, LC, Doza, HPD, Fonty, É, Gómez, RZ, Gonzales, T, Gonzales, GPG, Guillaumet, J-L, Hoffman, B, Junqueira, AB, Malhi, Y, de Andrade Miranda, IP, Pinto, LFM, Prieto, A, Rudas, A, Ruschel, AR, Silva, N, Vela, CIA, Vos, VA, Zent, EL, Zent, S, Albuquerque, BW, Cano, A, Correa, DF, Costa, JBP, Flores, BM, Holmgren, M, Nascimento, MT, Oliveira, AA, Ramirez-Angulo, H, Rocha, M, Scudeller, VV, Sierra, R, Tirado, M, Umaña, MN, van der Heijden, G, Torre, EV, Vriesendorp, C, Wang, O, Young, KR, Reategui, MAA, Baider, C, Balslev, H, Cárdenas, S, Casas, LF, Farfan-Rios, W, Ferreira, C, Linares-Palomino, R, Mendoza, C, Mesones, I, Torres-Lezama, A, Giraldo, LEU, Villarroel, D, Zagt, R, Alexiades, MN, Garcia-Cabrera, K, Hernandez, L, Milliken, W, Cuenca, WP, Pansini, S, Pauletto, D, Arevalo, FR, Sampaio, AF, Sandoval, EHV, Gamarra, LV, Boenisch, G, Kattge, J, Kraft, N, Levesley, A, Melgaço, K, Pickavance, G, Poorter, L & ter Steege, H 2023, 'Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 2859. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y

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Pos, E., de Souza Coelho, L., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., Salomão, R. P., Amaral, I. L., de Almeida Matos, F. D., Castilho, C. V., Phillips, O. L., Guevara, J. E., de Jesus Veiga Carim, M., López, D. C., Magnusson, W. E., Wittmann, F., Irume, M. V., Martins, M. P., Sabatier, D., da Silva Guimarães, J. R., Molino, J.-F., Bánki, O. S., ... ter Steege, H. (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 2859. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y

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Pos E, de Souza Coelho L, de Andrade Lima Filho D, Salomão RP, Amaral IL, de Almeida Matos FD et al. Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports. 2023 Feb 17;13(1):2859. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y

Author

Pos, Edwin ; de Souza Coelho, Luiz ; de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes et al. / Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy : a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. In: Scientific Reports. 2023 ; Vol. 13, No. 1.

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