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Acknowledgements

We thank the following people for their valuable contribution to this study: A. Nijmeijer, Q. Hakkaart, R. Haasnoot, J. Buijks, A. R. Seas, K. Paredes, A. Mendez, I. Bender, R. Middendorp, T. Voswinkel, R. Peters, E. Louwers, K. Veldhuijzen, W. Berendsen, F. Kelly, W. M. Nanga, D. Zakamdi, M. G. Singha, T. de Vries, A. Uilhoorn, N. van Rabenswaaij, U. Sass-Klaassen, F. Sterck, P. Schippers, S. Kiratiprayoon, A. Murdjoko, the personnel of logging companies Transformation REEF Cameroon and La Chonta Ltd Bolivia, R. Quevedo of the Carrera Forestal UAGRM, M. Tchamba of the Forestry department, University of Dschang and S. Bunyavejchewin of the National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand. We would further like to thank P. J. Baker, C. Körner, W. F. Laurance, M. Scheffer, D. Sheil and S. J. Wright for comments on the manuscript. P.v.d.S., P.G., M.V. and P.Z. were financially supported by the European Research Council (ERC grant no. 242955).

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  1. Forest Ecology and Management Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands,
    Peter van der Sleen, Peter Groenendijk, Mart Vlam, Frans Bongers, Gideon Terburg & Pieter A. Zuidema
  2. Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal, Km 9 carretera al norte Casilla 6204, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,
    Peter van der Sleen
  3. Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands,
    Niels P. R. Anten
  4. Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
    Niels P. R. Anten, Gideon Terburg & Pieter A. Zuidema
  5. Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
    Arnoud Boom
  6. Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
    Thijs L. Pons

Authors

  1. Peter van der Sleen
  2. Peter Groenendijk
  3. Mart Vlam
  4. Niels P. R. Anten
  5. Arnoud Boom
  6. Frans Bongers
  7. Thijs L. Pons
  8. Gideon Terburg
  9. Pieter A. Zuidema

Contributions

P.A.Z. conceived the study in discussion with N.P.R.A. and T.L.P. The study was supervised by P.A.Z. and F.B. P.G., M.V. and P.v.d.S. sampled the trees in the field and measured growth rings. G.T., P.v.d.S. and A.B. performed the stable isotope analyses. P.v.d.S. and P.A.Z. performed the data analyses and wrote the manuscript. All authors contributed to the interpretation of the results and helped to improve the manuscript.

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van der Sleen, P., Groenendijk, P., Vlam, M. et al. No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased.Nature Geosci 8, 24–28 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2313

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