Response to Comment on "Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest"
Nathan J. B. Kraft* and
David D. Ackerly
Lake and Ostling address several issues that they suggest could
influence our analyses of tropical forest community assembly.
Some of the issues have already been considered, whereas others
appear to arise from misunderstandings. We offer clarification
of our analyses and additional discussion of our results.
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nkraft{at}berkeley.edu