Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities – Nature

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