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Safety and streamlining of woody shoots in wind: an empirical study across 39 species in tropical Australia

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Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

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Do all trees carry the seeds of their own destruction? PCR reveals numerous wood decay fungi latently present in sapwood of a wide range of angiosperm trees

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The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set

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Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

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The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

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Effects of stem anatomical and structural traits on responses to stem damage: an experimental study in the Bolivian Amazon

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Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

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Optimal co-allocation of carbon and nitrogen in a forest stand at steady state

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