Fig. 2.

Effects of wood density (WD), tree size, and competition (subplot neighbor basal area; BA_neigh) on predicted annual basal area growth and mortality across Amazonia (n = 102 plots) and tropical Africa (n = 49). Solid lines and symbols indicate predicted effects based on the posterior means; shaded areas indicate the 95% credible interval. Boxplots indicate the distribution of the variable on the x‐axis. BA_neigh was kept constant at the mean for quantifying effects of WD and tree size on growth and mortality; tree size was kept constant at 20‐cm diameter for quantifying effects of WD and BA_neigh. dbh = diameter at breast height.