Acknowledgements
We thank the ForestGeo network and the following individuals and their
support teams for access to the sites: Dave Orwig (HF), Bill McShea
(SCBI), Sean McMahon (SERC), Jonathan Myers (TRC), and Amy Wolf (WLF).
We are grateful to members of the Philips and Brzostek labs for
assistance in the field. Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of
Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial
Ecosystem Science Program (Award # DESC0016188), Center for Tropical
Forest Science – ForestGEO, and the United States Department of
Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (no.
2019-67011-29507). JBF contributed to this research from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a
contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. MEC
contributed to this research from Oak Ridge National Laboratory which is
operated by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the
U.S. Department of Energy.