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Comment
. 2009 Dec;12(12):E19-21; discussion E22-5.
doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01326.x.

Are the dynamics of tropical forests dominated by large and rare disturbance events?

Jon Lloyd  1 , Emanuel U Gloor, Simon L Lewis
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Are the dynamics of tropical forests dominated by large and rare disturbance events?

Jon Lloyd et al. Ecol Lett. 2009 Dec.

Abstract

A recent Ecology Letters paper of Fisher et al. (2008) utilized a modelling framework to investigate disturbance effects on forest biomass dynamics. But it contains serious methodological and conceptual errors. Associated conclusions are unlikely to be correct.

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