We gratefully acknowledge Rildo M. Moreira and staff of the Itatinga Research Station (ESALQ/USP) for authorization to conduct the experiment and Eder Araujo da Silva (http://www.floragroapoio.com.br) for technical support in the installation of the throughfall exclusion device and growth monitoring. We also thank Dr. Juan Sinforiano Delgado Rojas for support in installing, maintaining, and reading the automatic dendrometers. This research was funded by the Agropolis Foundation under reference ID1203-003 through the ?Investissements d'avenir? program (LabexAgro/ANR-10-LABX-0001-01), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico (CNPq) (444793/2014-3), and Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cient?fico, Tecnol?gico y de Innovaci?n Tecnologica (FONDECYT-CONCYTEC, Per?) (Award Number 239-2018). Roger Chambi- Legoas was supported by a scholarship from FONDECYT-CONCYTEC (Award Number...

We gratefully acknowledge Laura Cutire, Laura Ramirez, Javier F. Valles, and Erika Sajami for the field work. We also thank the staff of Alwyn Gentry Herbarium of Universidad Nacional Amaz?nica de Madre de Dios and of San Marcos Herbarium of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos for their technical support in the taxonomic identification. We also thank FONDECYT-CONCYTEC (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cient?fico, Tecnol?gico y de Innovaci?n Tecnol?gica, Per?, award #239-2018) for the fellowship grant to RC-L; CAPES (Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior do Governo do Brasil, Finance Code 001 and #88882.305844/2018-01), FAPESP (Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de S?o Paulo, grant #2012/24118-8), and The Royal Society for the fellowship granted to DR; and also FAPESP (grant #2018/22914-8) for the fellowship grant to DOR. Funding. Funding for the field work was...