The authors are indebted to the FESCCR for their assistance in this work, to Pedro Cuesta for statistical assistance, and Adrian Burton for editorial and language assistance.
We would like to thank the SUNY ESF Upper Division Honors Program and the Center for Applied Microbiology for their assistance with this work.
We thank members of the Nickerson laboratory for their helpful discussions and assistance with this work.
The authors thank Sheela Damle for her assistance on this work.
We are profoundly grateful to Florence Dotigny, Alexandre Bétourné for their helpful technical assistance in this work and Miguel Chagnon for his statistical expertise.
We thank Dr. Shay Tal and Ana Hernandez for thoughtful suggestions and Dr. Robert M. Gage for his assistance throughout this work.
We thank P Yaba, A Délicat, P Ngari from Centre International de Recherches de Franceville, Gabon, for technical assistance during this work.
We thank Karina Espinosa Mazariego for technical assistance in this work and Olivera Francetic for providing the anti-PpdD antiserum and for critical discussions.
The authors thank Natarajan Kannan, Olivier Lichtarge, and members of the Pillus lab for their helpful discussions and insights; Robert Levenson for assistance on this work; and Anne Ritter for proofreading of the manuscript.
We would like to thank Ida Lopez, Jamie Whitacre, Jerome Chave, the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories, the Smithsonian's Laboratories of Analytical Biology, the U.S. Forest Service, and the University of Puerto Rico for assistance in this work.
