This research was supported by the Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute (STRI). The authors thank Milton Garcia for installing and
maintaining the temperature and CO2 control and
monitoring system and Jorge Aranda for establishing and watering the
plants. MS was supported by the Earl S. Tupper–STRI postdoctoral
fellowship. SWR was supported by The Oxford Martin School Climate
Partnership with the Nature Conservancy. We are grateful for the
feedback provided by N.G. Smith and one anonymous reviewer on a previous
version of the paper.
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