phase I and II. The BOLFOR project is a forest management project
funded by USAID, the Bolivian Government, and the Nature
Conservancy. We thank the owners and personnel of INPA Parket
Ltda, for permission to work in their property and for their
assistance with the establishment and monitoring of the plots, and
the application of the treatments.Wealso thank the field assistants
for their help during different phases of the study. Todd
Fredericksen, F.E. ‘‘Jack’’ Putz, and Lars Markesteijn provided
useful comments in earlier versions of this manuscript, and
Lourens Poorter helped with statistical analyses. While writing this
manuscript, MPC was partially supported by the Inter-American
Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2015, which is
supported by the US National Science Foundation (Grant GEO-
0452325).