Acknowledgements
We thank the ForestGeo network and the following individuals and their support teams for access to the sites: Dave Orwig (HF), Bill McShea (SCBI), Sean McMahon (SERC), Jonathan Myers (TRC), and Amy Wolf (WLF). We are grateful to members of the Philips and Brzostek labs for assistance in the field. Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program (Award # DESC0016188), Center for Tropical Forest Science – ForestGEO, and the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (no. 2019-67011-29507). JBF contributed to this research from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. MEC contributed to this research from Oak Ridge National Laboratory which is operated by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy.