School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert & Thomas A. M. Pugh
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J. W. Brienen, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Timothy R. Baker, Emanuel Gloor, Aurora Levesley, Simon L. Lewis, Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaço Ladvocat, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Julie Peacock, Georgia Pickavance & David Galbraith
Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert & Thomas A. M. Pugh
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Sophie Fauset
Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Martin J. P. Sullivan
International Master Program of Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
Kuo-Jung Chao
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Ted R. Feldpausch
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Niro Higuchi, Adriano José Nogueira Lima & Carlos Quesada
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Jeanne Houwing-Duistermaat & Haiyan Liu
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life, Imperial College London Sciences, London, UK
Jon Lloyd
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Yadvinder Malhi & Simone Matias de Almeida Reis
UNEMAT – Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Paulo Morandi, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira & Simone Matias de Almeida Reis
Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Victor Chama Moscoso, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra & Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Lourens Poorter, Frans Bongers, Marielos Peña-Claros & Pieter Zuidema
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
Marcos Silveira
Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
Emilio Vilanova Torre & Julio Serrano
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Emilio Vilanova Torre
Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Boyacá, Colombia
Esteban Alvarez Dávila
Fundación ConVida, Medellín, Colombia
Esteban Alvarez Dávila
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Nallaret Davila Cardozo & Eurídice Honorio Coronado
Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
Everton Almeida
Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, University in Durham, Durham, NC, USA
Patricia Alvarez Loayza
Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Ana Andrade & José Luís Camargo
National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami & Marisol Toledo
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Eric Arets
Dirección de la Carrera de Biología, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Luzmila Arroyo
INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
Michel Baisie, Damien Bonal, Benoit Burban, Aurélie Dourdain, Maxime Rejou-Machain & Clement Stahl
Department of Biological Sciences, International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Christopher Baraloto
Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
Plínio Barbosa Camargo
Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus Floresta, Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil
Jorcely Barroso
UR Forest & Societies, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Lilian Blanc
Department of Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
René Boot
Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA
Foster Brown
Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
Wendeson Castro
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Jerome Chave
Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO, USA
James Comiskey
Proyecto Castaña, Madre de Dios, Peru
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Para, Belém, Brazil
Antonio Lola da Costa
Department of Anthropology and Primate Molecular Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Anthony Di Fiore
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Terry Erwin
Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre de Grohmann, Tacna, Peru
Gerardo Flores Llampazo
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira & Rafael Salomão
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
Rafael Herrera
IIAMA, Universitat Politécnica de València, València, Spain
Rafael Herrera
Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
Eliana Jimenez-Rojas
Agteca, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Timothy Killeen
College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
Susan Laurance & William Laurance
Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
Simon L. Lewis
Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Thomas Lovejoy
Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Patrick Meir
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Patrick Meir
Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Unidad Académica del Trópico, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Casimiro Mendoza
Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
David Neill
Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
Percy Nuñez Vargas, Nadir Pallqui Camacho & Javier Silva Espejo
Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia
Guido Pardo & Vincent Vos
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ikiam, Ecuador
Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora
Broward County Parks Recreation, Oakland Park, FL, USA
John Pipoly
Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
Nigel Pitman
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Adriana Prieto & Agustín Rudas
Institute of Research for Forestry Development (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo
Socioecosistemas y Cambio Climatico, Fundacion Con Vida, Medellín, Colombia
Zorayda Restrepo Correa
Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, CIMA Cordillera Azul, Lima, Peru
Lily Rodriguez Bayona
Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil
Rafael Salomão & Natalino Silva
Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
Javier Silva Espejo
Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, Guyana
James Singh
Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
Juliana Stropp
Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA, USA
Varun Swamy
Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Joey Talbot
Biodiversity Dynamics, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Hans ter Steege
Systems Ecology, Free University, De Boelelaan 1087, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hans ter Steege
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
John Terborgh
Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
Raquel Thomas
Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
Armando Torres-Lezama
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Geertje van der Heijden
Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Peter van der Meer
Van der Hoult Forestry Consulting, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Peter van der Hout
Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Simone Aparecida Vieira
Herbario del Sur de Bolivia, Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Sucre, Bolivia
Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo
Tropenbos International, Wageningen, Netherlands
Roderick Zagt
A.E.-M. and D.G. designed the study with contributions from O.L.P., R.J.W.B., S.F. and M.J.P.S. A.E.-M. carried out the analyses with inputs from D.G., O.L.P., R.J.W.B., S.F., M.J.P.S., J.H.-.D. and H.L. A.E.-M. wrote a first draft with contributions from D.G., M.J.P.S., T.A.M.P., S.F. and O.L.P. O.L.P., R.J.W.B., S.F., M.J.P.S., T.R.B., K.-J.C., T.R.F., N.H., Y.M., B.M., B.H.M.J., A.M.-M., L.P., M.S., E.V.T., E.A.D., J.d.A.P., E.A., P.A.L., A.A., L.E.O.CA., A.A.-M., E.Arets, L.A., G.A.A.C., M.B., C.B., P.B.C., J.B., L.B., D.B., F.B., R.J.W.B., F.Brown, B.B., J.L.C., W.C., V.C.M., J.C., J.Comiskey, F.C.V., A.L.d.C., N.D.C., A.D.F., A.D., T.E., G.F.L., I.C.G.V., R.H., E.H.C., I.H.-C., E.J.-R., T.K., S.L., W.L., S.L.L., T.L., P.M., C.M., P.Morandi, D.N., A.J.N.L., P.N.V., E.A.d.O., N.P.C., G.Prado, J.Pipoly, M.P.-C., M.C.P.-M., N.P., A.P., C.Q., H.R.-A., S.M.d.A.R., M.R.-M., Z.R.C., L.R.B., A.R., R.S., J.S., J.S.E., N.S., J.Singh, C.S., J.Stroop, V.S., J.T., H.t.S., J.T., R.T., M.T., A.T.-L., L.V.G., G.v.d.H., P.v.d.M., P.v.d.H., R.V.M., S.A.V., J.V.C., V.V., R.Z. and P.Z. led field expeditions for data collection. O.L.P., J.L. and Y.M. conceived the RAINFOR forest plot network; D.G., E.G. and T.R.B. contributed to its development. O.L.P., R.J.W.B., T.R.F., T.R.B., A.M.‐M., L.E.O.C.A., E.A.D., B.M., B.H.M.J., N.H., E.V.T., J.C., E.G. and Y.M. coordinated data collection with the help of many co‐authors. O.L.P., T.R.B., S.L.L. and G.L.-G. conceived ForestPlots.net, and M.J.P.S., A.L., J.Peacock, G.P., K.L.L.M.L., D.G. and E.G. helped to develop it. All authors read and approved the manuscript (with important insights provided by O.L.P., L.P., H.t.S., T.E., W.C., S.M.d.A.R., E.G., E.A.d.O., P.M., M.J.P.S., D.B., G.v.d.H. and P.Z.).
