Rethinking plant functional types in Earth System Models: pan-tropical analysis of tree survival across environmental gradients

Daniel Jacob Johnson1, Jessica Fay Needham2, Chonggang Xu3, Stuart J Davies4, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin5, Christian P Giardina6, Richard Condit7, Susan Cordell8, Creighton McMaster Litton9, Stephen Hubbell10, Abd Rahman B Kassim11, Lum K.Y. Shawn12, Musalmah Nasardin13, Perry Ong14, Rebecca Ostertag15, Lawren Sack16, Sylvester Kheng San Tan17, Sandra Yap14, Nathan G G McDowell1 and Sean McMahon18, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (5)Royal Thai Forest Department, Silvicultural Research Division, Forest Research Office, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Hilo, HI, United States, (7)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, (8)USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI, United States, (9)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, (12)Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education, Singapore, Singapore, (13)Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Forestry and Environment Division, Selangor, Malaysia, (14)University of the Philippines Diliman, Institute of Biology, Quezon City, Philippines, (15)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (16)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (17)Sarawak Forest Department, Sarawak, Malaysia, (18)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Balboa, Panama