Tropical forests and global change: biogeochemical responses and opportunities for cross-site comparisons, an organized INSPIRE session at the 108^th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2023

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We would like to thank the more than 75 audience participants who attended this INSPIRE session and contributed to constructive and productive discussion, as well as the Ecological Society of America for hosting the meeting. The Panama PARCHED experiment was supported by the US DOE Office of Science BER Early Career Award DE-SC0015898 and NSF Geography & Spatial Studies Grant BCS-1437591 to DFC. The Panama SWELTR experiment was supported by grants to ATN including a UK NERC grant NE/T012226, a European Union Marie-Curie Fellowship FP7-2012-329360, and a STRI Tupper Fellowship. The Puerto Rico TRACE experiment was supported by US NSF Grant DEB-2140580 and DOE ESS DE-SC-0018942, DE-SC-0022095 to TEW and SR. The Hawai'i LSAG work was supported in part NSF CAREER 0546868 to RO and was facilitated through NSF EPSCoR 0237065 and 0554657. The US DOE Office of Science BER Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE)-Tropics supported JA Holm, MEC, and the work with FATES model. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the US DOE under contract DE-AC05-1008 00OR22725. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle LLC under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). We would like to thank the > 75 audience participants who attended this INSPIRE session and contributed to constructive and productive discussion, as well as the Ecological Society of America for hosting the meeting. The Panama PARCHED experiment was supported by the US DOE Office of Science BER Early Career Award DE‐SC0015898 and NSF Geography & Spatial Studies Grant BCS‐1437591 to D.F. Cusack. The Panama SWELTR experiment was supported by grants to A.T. Nottingham including a UK NERC grant NE/T012226, a European Union Marie‐Curie Fellowship FP7‐2012‐329360, and a STRI Tupper Fellowship. The Puerto Rico TRACE experiment was supported by US NSF Grant DEB‐2140580 and DOE ESS DE‐SC‐0018942, DE‐SC‐0022095 to T.E. Wood and S. Reed. The Hawai'i LSAG work was supported in part NSF CAREER 0546868 to R. Ostertag and was facilitated through NSF EPSCoR 0237065 and 0554657. The US DOE Office of Science BER Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE)‐Tropics supported J.A. Holm, M. Craig, and the work with FATES model. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT‐Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. DOE under contract DE‐AC05‐1008 00OR22725. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. This manuscript has been authored by UT‐Battelle LLC under contract DE‐AC05‐00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid‐up, irrevocable, world‐wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe‐public‐access‐plan ).