Appendices

Appendix A: Summary of the functional trait database used in the study.
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Appendix B: Alternative phylogenetic community structure analysis using a presence/absence null model.
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Appendix C: Percentage of quadrats where the observed trait metrics were significantly different from the the null expectation.
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Appendix D: Comparison of the ability of three different metrics of even trait spacing to distinguish between alternative models of community assembly.
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Appendix E: Distributions of six trait metrics for leaf nitrogen produced by four community assembly simulation models.
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Appendix F: Distributions of six trait metrics for leaf size produced by four community assembly simulation models.
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Appendix G: Distributions of six trait metrics for seed size produced by four community assembly simulation models.
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Appendix H: Distributions of six trait metrics for wood density produced by four community assembly simulation models.
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Appendix I: Distributions of six trait metrics for maximum dbh produced by four community assembly simulation models.
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Appendix J: Distributions of six trait metrics for the 95th quantile of the diameter distribution of all trees ≥ 0.1 of the maximum distance observed in the species, D95_0.1 produced by four community assembly simulation models.
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Appendix K: Relationship between SLA estimated from leaf punches and SLA estimated from whole leaves.
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Supplements

Supplement 1: Leaf trait data set from the Yasuni Forest Dynamics plot, Ecuador.
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Supplement 2: Community assembly simulation code for use in the R programming language.
Ecological Archives M080-013-S2.

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