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At the onset of treatment applications, a total of 93 palms (P. acuminata) and 143 non-palm stems (23 species) were established within the measurement area of the six trim plots (TD and TR). In 2007, which was when the first census of stems occurred after the treatments were applied, the average mortality of the treated stems (i.e. those cut by arborists) was 5.3% (range: 0�C13% among the six trimmed plots), or 4.2% if palms were not included. Among trimmed plots in the study, there were just four species with individuals that died from treated stems, including P. acuminata (seven of 93 individuals), Matayba domingensis (three of seven), Tabebuia heterophylla (one of two) and Calycogonium squamulosum (two of two). Mortality in 2007 among stems in the trimmed plots http://www.selleck.cn/products/PD-98059.html averaged 8.2% (range: 5�C11%), thus even with the treated stems there appeared to be no significant impact of trimming on stem mortality. Rates of stem mortality increased significantly from 2007 to 2008 in the trimmed plots due to self-thinning among the new recruits (time x trim: P?=?0.0085; Fig.?6c), which were individuals that grew into the stem size class during 2005�C2008. Although TD plots tended http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Rapamycin.html to have the highest mortality rate in 2008, there were no significant effects of detritus on mortality rates (P?=?0.5994) or interactions between trimming and detritus and time (P?=?0.4753; Fig.?6c). Similar to the responses of seedlings by 2005 (Fig?3d), stems dramatically increased in recruitment rates by 2007 in the trimmed plots (TD and TR) and were significantly greater than recruitment rates in untrimmed plots following treatment application (time?��?trim: P? http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Everolimus(RAD001).html to treatment application, P. acuminata and S. berteriana were the two most abundant species (Table?1; Fig.?7). Following the treatment application in late 2004�C2005, the two pioneer species, C. schreberiana and P. berteriana, dramatically increased in abundance in the trimmed (TD and TR) plots where they persisted as the two most abundant species through the 2008 census (Fig.?7). Non-pioneer species, such as P. acuminata, S. berteriana, D. excelsa and M. bidentata, tended to be less abundant in TR and TD plots following treatment applications (Fig.?7). In the untrimmed plots (UD and CN), several pioneer species, such as P.