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...ling traps, etc, etc. are collected to different degrees at different sites. Some sites have more than one plot, some have 2, 25 ha plots, some have 52 hectare, species identification can easily take 10 years and counting, some sites have 1200 species, etc. etc. It is a very large project with 18 pantropical sites, over 3 million trees, 5000+ species with data ranging from first census to 7th census. The people doing the field work and the analysis vary tremendously in their backgrounds and expertise. There are many collaborators who have done little or none of the field work, some haven't even b...