Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
Declan L. M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis & Mathias I. Disney
Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
Declan L. M. Cooper & Richard G. Pearson
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Timothy R. Baker, Serge Begne, Roel Brienen, David Galbraith, Wannes Hubau, Aurora Levesley, Jon C. Lovett, Oliver L. Phillips, Georgia Pickavance & Lan Qie
Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Martin J. P. Sullivan
Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
Paulo I. Prado & Alexandre A. Oliveira
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Hans ter Steege, Olaf S. Bánki, Paul Maas & Tinde R. Van Andel
Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hans ter Steege
AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France
Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, Gilles Dauby, Vincent Droissart, Julien Engel, Jean-François Molino, Pierre Ploton & Daniel Sabatier
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Nicolas Barbier, Bonaventure Sonké, Serge Begne, Pierre Couteron, Gilles Dauby, Marie-Noël K. Djuikouo, Vincent Droissart, Narcisse G. Kamdem, Moses B. Libalah, Jean-François Molino, Pierre Ploton, Daniel Sabatier, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, Murielle Simo-Droissart & Lise Zemagho
Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam
Ferry Slik
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Bonaventure Sonké, Serge Begne, Narcisse G. Kamdem, Moses B. Libalah, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, Murielle Simo-Droissart & Lise Zemagho
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management and Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Corneille E. N. Ewango
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Kumasi, Ghana
Stephen Adu-Bredu & Ernest G. Foli
Mensuration Unit, Forestry Commission of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana
Kofi Affum-Baffoe
Procuradoria-Geral de Justiça, Ministério Público do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
Daniel P. P. de Aguiar
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Juan Carlos Montero & Florian Wittmann
Medio Ambiente, PLUSPRETOL, Iquitos, Peru
Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Shin-Ichiro Aiba
Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Layon O. Demarchi, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Maira Rocha & Jochen Schöngart
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Cid Ferreira, Rogerio Gribel, Mariana Victória Irume, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Maria Pires Martins, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, José Ferreira Ramos, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Juliana Schietti, Luiz de Souza Coelho & Charles Eugene Zartman
Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Alfonso Alonso & Francisco Dallmeier
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
Christian A. Amani, Patrick Boundja & Terry C. H. Sunderland
Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Christian A. Amani
Coordenação de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
Dário Dantas do Amaral, Leandro Valle Ferreira & Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Ana Andrade & José Luís Camargo
Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ilondea B. Angoboy
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo & Daniel Villarroel
Herbario Amazónico Colombiano, Instituto SINCHI, Bogotá, Colombia
Nicolás Castaño Arboleda & Dairon Cárdenas López
Bullard Emeritus Professor of Forestry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Peter Ashton
Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT), UNELLEZ-Guanare, Guanare, Venezuela
Gerardo A. Aymard C
The Mauritius Herbarium, Agricultural Services, Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security, Reduit, Mauritius
Cláudia Baider
Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
Cláudia Baider & Marcelo Petratti Pansonato
Tetra Tech ARD, Accra, Ghana
Michael Philippe Bessike Balinga
Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Aarhus, Denmark
Henrik Balslev
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, UK
Lindsay F. Banin
International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Chris Baraloto & Jason Vleminckx
ICNHS, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil
Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Janaína Costa Noronha & Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Jos Barlow & Erika Berenguer
TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium
Jean-Francois Bastin
Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
Hans Beeckman, Nils Bourland, Thales De Haulleville, Brice Yannick Djiofack, Wannes Hubau, Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu, Félix Laurent, Nestor K. Luambua, Laurent Nsenga, Andreas Popelier, Benjamin Toirambe & John Tshibamba Mukendi
Ministry of Forests, Seas, Environment and Climate, Libreville, Gabon
Natacha Nssi Bengone & Lee J. T. White
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Erika Berenguer, Yadvinder Malhi, Sam Moore & Terhi Riutta
The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group, Edinburgh, UK
Nicholas Berry
Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mbarara, Uganda
Robert Bitariho
Isotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Pascal Boeckx
Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liege, Liège, Belgium
Jan Bogaert
Section de la Foresterie, Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomique Yangambi, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bernard Bonyoma
Congo Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Patrick Boundja, Vittoria Estienne & Mireille B. N. Hockemba
CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia
Nils Bourland
Forest Resources Management, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Nils Bourland
Resources and Synergies Development, Singapore, Singapore
Nils Bourland
Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Faustin Boyemba Bosela & John M. Katembo
Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Fabian Brambach
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
David F. R. P. Burslem
Universidade Federal do Amapá, Ciências Ambientais, Macapá, Brazil
Wegliane Campelo & José Julio de Toledo
Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Angela Cano, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, Diego F. Correa & Pablo R. Stevenson
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, UK
Angela Cano
Programa de Maestria de Manejo de Bosques, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez
Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Flávia R. C. Costa, William E. Magnusson & Alberto Vicentini
Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho
Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de Guayana, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
Hernán Castellanos
Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal de Roraima, Embrapa Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil
Carolina V. Castilho
Escuela de Biología Herbario Alfredo Paredes, Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador
Carlos Cerón
Biology Department, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Colin A. Chapman
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Colin A. Chapman
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa
Colin A. Chapman
Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Jerome Chave & Nicolas Labrière
Institute of Forest and Wildlife Research and Development (IRD), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Phourin Chhang
Conservation Ecology Program, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
Wanlop Chutipong
Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
George B. Chuyong & Marie-Noël K. Djuikouo
Instituto de Biociências, Departamento Botanica, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Connie J. Clark & John R. Poulsen
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Fernanda Coelho de Souza & Ted R. Feldpausch
BeZero, London, UK
Fernanda Coelho de Souza
Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
James A. Comiskey
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
James A. Comiskey
Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
David A. Coomes
Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program, Madre de Dios, Madre de Dios, Peru
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Diego F. Correa
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa & Marcelino Carneiro Guedes
State Agency for Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology, Güstrow, Germany
Heike Culmsee
Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
Aida Cuni-Sanchez & Andrew R Marshall
Department of International Environmental and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
Aida Cuni-Sanchez
Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Gabriel Damasco
Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
Nállarett Dávila & Bruno Garcia Luize
Servicios de Biodiversidad EIRL, Iquitos, Peru
Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto & Marcos Ríos Paredes
Centre for Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Jose Don T. De Alban & M. Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ronderos
Phillipines Programme, Fauna and Flora International, Cambridge, UK
Jose Don T. De Alban, Roven D. Tumaneng & Rizza Karen A. Veridiano
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Brazil
Rafael L. de Assis
Landscape Ecology and Vegetal Production Systems Unit, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Charles De Canniere
Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Amapá (IEPA), Macapá, Brazil
Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Kyle G. Dexter
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Kyle G. Dexter, David J. Harris & R. Toby Pennington
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Anthony Di Fiore
Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador
Anthony Di Fiore & Gonzalo Rivas-Torres
Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Hazimah Haji Mohammad Din & Rahayu S. Sukri
Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA), Wood Laboratory of Yangambi, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Brice Yannick Djiofack, Félix Laurent & Nestor K. Luambua
UGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Brice Yannick Djiofack, Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu, Félix Laurent & Andreas Popelier
Silviculture Research Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tran Van Do
Forest Is Life, TERRA, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Liège University, Liège, Belgium
Jean-Louis Doucet
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Freddie C. Draper
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joost F. Duivenvoorden
Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Julien Engel
Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in Saint Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
William Farfan-Rios
Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA
William Farfan-Rios & Alfredo Fuentes
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Sophie Fauset
Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Kenneth J. Feeley
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Kenneth J. Feeley
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia (Botânica), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Yuri Oliveira Feitosa
Department of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Ted R. Feldpausch & R. Toby Pennington
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil
Joice Ferreira
Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia
Christine D. Fletcher
Postgraduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
Bernardo Monteiro Flores
The Gola Rainforest National Park, Kenema, Sierra Leone
Alusine Fofanah
Direction Régionale de la Guyane, Office National des Forêts, Cayenne, French Guiana
Émile Fonty
Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Émile Fonty
Pro Natura Foundation, Balikpapan, Indonesia
Gabriella M. Fredriksson
Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Carrera de Biología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia
Alfredo Fuentes
Biology Department and Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
Karina Garcia-Cabrera & Miles R. Silman
Programa Restauración de Ecosistemas (PRE), Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA), Tambopata, Peru
Roosevelt García-Villacorta
Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC), Iquitos, Peru
Roosevelt García-Villacorta
Escola de Negócios Tecnologia e Inovação, Centro Universitário do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Vitor H. F. Gomes
Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Vitor H. F. Gomes
PROTERRA, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru
Ricardo Zárate Gómez
ACEER Foundation, Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Therany Gonzales
Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
Juan Ernesto Guevara
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
Juan Ernesto Guevara
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Khalid Rehman Hakeem
Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Jefferson S. Hall & David Kenfack
School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Keith C. Hamer
Honorary Professor, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, China
Alan C. Hamilton
World Agroforestry, Lusaka, Zambia
Rhett D. Harrison
Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Terese B. Hart
Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA
Terese B. Hart
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Andy Hector
Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA, USA
Terry W. Henkel
Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, Australia
John Herbohn & Sharif Ahmed Mukul
Amazon Conservation Team, Arlington, USA
Bruce Hoffman
Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Milena Holmgren
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru
Euridice N. Honorio Coronado
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Euridice N. Honorio Coronado
Herbario HAG, Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco
Department of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Wannes Hubau
Department of Forest Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuo Imai
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama
Patrick A. Jansen
Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Patrick A. Jansen
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
Kathryn J. Jeffery & Lee J. T. White
Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Fauna y Flora Silvestre, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
Eliana M. Jimenez
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Tommaso Jucker
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
André Braga Junqueira
School of Earth, Environment and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Michelle Kalamandeen
Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
Kuswata Kartawinata
Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu, Andreas Popelier & John Tshibamba Mukendi
Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVElab), Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Elizabeth Kearsley
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Kessler
Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, China
Thiri Toe Khaing & Kyle W. Tomlinson
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Thiri Toe Khaing
Agteca—Amazonica, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Timothy J. Killeen
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Kanehiro Kitayama
Department for Accelerated Taxonomy, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, UK
Bente Klitgaard
Forest and Environment Program, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
Yves Laumonier
Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Susan G. W. Laurance & William F. Laurance
Viet Nature Conservation Centre, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Tinh Cong Le, Trai Trong Le & Hieu Dang Tran
Uganda Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Kampala, Uganda
Miguel E. Leal
Divisao de Sensoriamento Remoto (DSR), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil
Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo
Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Moses B. Libalah
Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Juan Carlos Licona & Juan Carlos Montero
The RSPB, Sandy, UK
Jeremy A. Lindsell
A Rocha International, Cambridge, UK
Jeremy A. Lindsell
Department of Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Aline Lopes
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Maria Aparecida Lopes
Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, UK
Jon C. Lovett
Botany Department, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Richard Lowe
Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
José Rafael Lozada
Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
Xinghui Lu
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nestor K. Luambua
Faculté des sciences Agronomiques, Université Officielle de Mbujimayi, Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nestor K. Luambua
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
José Leonardo Lima Magalhães
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil
José Leonardo Lima Magalhães
Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Ni Putu Diana Mahayani
Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire d’Écologie et Aménagement Forestier, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jean-Remy Makana
School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia
Asyraf Mansor
Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia
Asyraf Mansor
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Unir, Porto Velho, Brazil
Angelo Gilberto Manzatto
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior & Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
Flamingo Land, Kirby Misperton, UK
Andrew R Marshall
Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
Andrew R Marshall
Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
Faustin M. Mbayu, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra & Rodolfo Vasquez
Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasilia, Brazil
Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros & Marcelo Fragomeni Simon
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Italo Mesones
Environmental and Life Sciences Programme, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Faizah Metali
Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon
Vianet Mihindou & Fidèle Evouna Ondo
Ministère de la Forêt, de la Mer, de l’Environnement, Chargé du Plan Climat, Libreville, Gabon
Vianet Mihindou
Office français de la biodiversité, Vincennes, France
Jerome Millet
Department for Ecosystem Stewardship, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, UK
William Milliken
Endangered Species Coalition, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Hugo F. Mogollón
Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
Mohd. Nizam Mohd. Said
Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza & Percy Núñez Vargas
Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Bonifacio Mostacedo
Department of Environment and Development Studies, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sharif Ahmed Mukul
Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
Pantaleo K. T. Munishi
The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Hidetoshi Nagamasu
Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goyatacazes, Brazil
Marcelo Trindade Nascimento
Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
David Neill
Forest Research Centre, Sandakan, Malaysia
Reuben Nilus
University of Abeokuta, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Lucas Ojo
Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Universidad Técnica del Norte, Quito, Ecuador
Walter Palacios Cuenca
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia PPG-Bionorte, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil
Susamar Pansini, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis & Adeilza Felipe Sampaio
Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Ekananda Paudel & Manichanh Satdichanh
Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
Daniela Pauletto
Universidad Nacional de Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru
José Luis Marcelo Pena
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Carlos A. Peres
University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
Andrea Permana
Cirad UMR Ecofog, AgrosParisTech, CNRS, INRAE, Université Guyane, Kourou Cedex, France
Pascal Petronelli
Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM, Tena, Ecuador
Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora
Fundación Puerto Rastrojo, Bogotá, Colombia
Juan Fernando Phillips
Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
Nigel C. A. Pitman & Corine Vriesendorp
The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO, USA
John R. Poulsen
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Adriana Prieto & Agustín Rudas
Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Richard B. Primack
Department of Resource and Environmental Economics (ESL), IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
Hari Priyadi
School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Lan Qie
Wetland Department, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Rastatt, Germany
Adriano Costa Quaresma & Florian Wittmann
Diretoria Técnico-Científica, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, Brazil
Helder Lima de Queiroz
Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Armando Torres-Lezama & Emilio Vilanova Torre
Waardenburg Ecology, Culemborg, The Netherlands
Jan Reitsma
College of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Terhi Riutta
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres
Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Iyan Robiansyah
Center for Plant Conservation Bogor Botanic Gardens, Indonesian Institute of Science, Bogor, Indonesia
Iyan Robiansyah
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
M. Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ronderos & David M. Taylor
Deparment of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Francesco Rovero
Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), Trento, Italy
Francesco Rovero
Research Center for Plant Conservation, Botanic Gardens and Forestry, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Bogor, Indonesia
Andes H. Rozak
InfoFlora, Botanical Garden of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Ervan Rutishauser
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Le Bienfaiteur Sagang
Forest Research and Development Center, Research, Development and Innovation Agency, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bogor, Indonesia
Ismayadi Samsoedin
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM)–Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB1), Manaus, Brazil
Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller
World Wildlife Fund Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
Naret Seuaturien & Robert Steinmetz
Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Douglas Sheil
GeoIS, Quito, Ecuador
Rodrigo Sierra & Milton Tirado
Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
Thiago Sanna Freire Silva
Amcel Amapá Florestal e Celulose SA, Santana, Brazil
José Renan da Silva Guimarães
Cirad-ES, Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D, Montpellier, France
Plinio Sist
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
Thaiane R. Sousa
Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis da Amazônia (EDTA), Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Dominick V. Spracklen & Suzanne M. Stas
Biogeography Department, Trier University, Trier, Germany
Juliana Stropp
Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Terry C. H. Sunderland
Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Eizi Suzuki
Department of Plant and Soil Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Michael D. Swaine
Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China
Jianwei Tang
UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK, London, UK
James Taplin
Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA
J. Sebastián Tello
Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
John Terborgh
James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
John Terborgh
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Nicolas Texier
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ida Theilade
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA
Duncan W. Thomas
Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
Raquel Thomas
Institute of Forestry and Conservation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sean C. Thomas
Ministère de l’Environnement et Développement Durable, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Benjamin Toirambe
Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, China
Kyle W. Tomlinson
Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université de Mbujimayi, Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Tshibamba Mukendi
Emerging Technology Development Division, Department of Science and Technology Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD), Taguig City, Philippines
Roven D. Tumaneng
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Maria Natalia Umaña
Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA
Peter M. Umunay & Emilio Vilanova Torre
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Peter M. Umunay
Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo
Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St Louis, MO, USA
Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval
Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Tinde R. Van Andel
Doi Tung Development Project, Social Development Department, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Martin van de Bult
Compagnie des Bois du Gabon, Port Gentil, Gabon
Jaqueline van de Pol
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Geertje van der Heijden
Escuela Profesional de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Puerto Maldonado, Peru
César I. A. Vela
Centro de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Eduardo Martins Venticinque
CAVElab—Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Hans Verbeeck
FORLIANCE, Bonn, Germany
Rizza Karen A. Veridiano
Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Daniel Villarroel
Direccíon de Evaluación Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre, Magdalena del Mar, Peru
Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra
Faculté des Sciences, Service d’Évolution Biologique et Écologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Jason Vleminckx
Fundación Estación de Biología, Bogotá, Colombia
Patricio von Hildebrand
Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales de la Amazonía, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia
Vincent Antoine Vos
Viikki Tropical Resources Institute, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Edward L. Webb
Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Helsinki, Finland
Edward L. Webb
Institut de Recherche en Écologie Tropicale, Libreville, Gabon
Lee J. T. White
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Serge Wich
Tropenbos International, Ede, The Netherlands
Roderick Zagt
Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
Runguo Zang
Laboratory of Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
Egleé L. Zent & Stanford Zent
D.L.M.C. and S.L.L. conceived and developed the study. D.L.M.C. performed the analysis with M.J.P.S. and P.I.P. and input from S.L.L. D.L.M.C., P.I.P., G.C.P., A.L. and M.J.P.S. developed tools to support the analysis. D.L.M.C. and S.L.L. wrote the manuscript with significant input from M.J.P.S., R.G.P. and M.I.D. S.L.L., B.S. and C.E.N.E. curated the AfriTRON forest plot data. N.B., P.P. and G.D. curated the Central African Plot Network forest plot data. H.T.S. curated the ATDN forest plot data. F.S. curated the Slik et al.4,25 Southeast Asia forest plot data. S.L.L. and O.L.P. curated the T-FORCES Southeast Asia carbon monitoring network. O.L.P., S.L.L., T.R.B., B.S, B.S.M., C.E., E.H., L.Q., A.L. and G.P. provided ForestPlots.net pan-tropical data management. All co-authors contributed data, reviewed, approved and had the opportunity to comment on the manuscript.