Fig. 6

Detailed topographic map (a) and topographic profile (b) of the 6.6- km transect in the Jianfengling Forest Reserve, Hainan Island, China, where functional traits of saplings were sampled. The transect started near the Jianfengling field house, at the entrance of the forest reserve. It progressed over one mountain, and over a stream (at km 4 of the transect), which delineated the secondary and primary areas of forest. At roughly km 5.5 of the transect, the transect entered the 60-ha CTFS-ForestGEO permanent forest dynamic plot