Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Philip J. Platts, Rob Marchant & Andrew Marshall
Department of International Environmental and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
Aida Cuni-Sanchez
Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Martin J. P. Sullivan
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Martin J. P. Sullivan, Simon L. Lewis, Serge K. Begne, Amy C. Bennett, Martin Gilpin, Jon Lovett & Oliver L. Phillips
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York, York, UK
Philip J. Platts
Climate Change Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland
Philip J. Platts
Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
Simon L. Lewis
Biology Department, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gérard Imani & Christian Amani
Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
Wannes Hubau, Hans Beeckman & John T. Mukendi
Department of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Wannes Hubau
University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
Iveren Abiem
Nigerian Montane Forest Project, Yelwa Village, Nigeria
Iveren Abiem & Hazel Chapman
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Hari Adhikari, Janne Heiskanen & Petri Pellikka
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Tomas Albrecht
Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Tomas Albrecht
Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science, Třeboň, Czech Republic
Jan Altman & Jiri Dolezal
College of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abreham B. Aneseyee & Teshome Soromessa
Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia
Abreham B. Aneseyee
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Valerio Avitabile
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK
Lindsay Banin
Université du Cinquantenaire Lwiro, Département de sciences de l’environnement, Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rodrigue Batumike
Isotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx & Joseph Okello
Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Serge K. Begne, Vincent Droissart, Marie-Noel Kamdem, Murielle Simo-Droissart & Bonaventure Sonké
Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
Robert Bitariho
Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liege, Liège, Belgium
Jan Bogaert
Institute for Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany
Achim Bräuning & Ulrike Hiltner
Département de Eaux et Forêts, Institut Supérieur d’Agroforesterie et de Gestion de l’Environnement de Kahuzi-Biega (ISAGE-KB), Kalehe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Franklin Bulonvu
UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
Neil D. Burgess
Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVElab), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Kim Calders & Hans Verbeeck
Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Colin Chapman
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Colin Chapman
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Colin Chapman
International Centre of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation, Dali University, Dali, China
Colin Chapman
University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand
Hazel Chapman
Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
James Comiskey
University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Thales de Haulleville
World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
Mathieu Decuyper
Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mathieu Decuyper & Martin Herold
Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Ben DeVries
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Jiri Dolezal
AMAP Lab, Université de Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Vincent Droissart
Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Corneille Ewango & Janvier Lisingo
College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Senbeta Feyera
Dendrochronology Laboratory, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
Aster Gebrekirstos
Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA
Roy Gereau
Department of Biology, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi
Dismas Hakizimana
Smithsonian Institution Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, USA
Jefferson Hall & David Kenfack
Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China
Alan Hamilton
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Olivier Hardy
Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA
Terese Hart
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Janne Heiskanen
Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Andreas Hemp
Helmholtz Center Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Potsdam, Germany
Martin Herold
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
Ulrike Hiltner
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
David Horak & Ondrej Sedlacek
International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Musanze, Rwanda
Charles Kayijamahe & Eustrate Uzabaho
Department of Natural Resources, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya
Mwangi J. Kinyanjui
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Julia Klein
Eco2librium LLC, Boise, ID, USA
Mark Lung
Department of Ecology, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jean-Remy Makana
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Yadvinder Malhi
Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
Andrew Marshall & Alain S. K. Ngute
Flamingo Land Ltd, Malton, UK
Andrew Marshall
College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania
Emanuel H. Martin
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Edward T. A. Mitchard & Charlotte Wheeler
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Alexandra Morel
Independent Botanist, Harare, Zimbabwe
Tom Muller
Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville, South Africa
Felix Nchu
Biology Department, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
Brigitte Nyirambangutse & Etienne Zibera
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Brigitte Nyirambangutse & Göran Wallin
Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda
Joseph Okello
National Agricultural Research Organisation, Mbarara Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Mbarara, Uganda
Joseph Okello
School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Petri Pellikka
Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat, BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK
Andrew Plumptre
School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Lan Qie
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Francesco Rovero
Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy
Francesco Rovero
Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Mundemba, Cameroon
Moses N. Sainge
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Christine B. Schmitt
Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Christine B. Schmitt
Applied Biology and Ecology Research Unit, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
Alain S. K. Ngute
Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Douglas Sheil
Water and Land Resources Center, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Demisse Sheleme
African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Biodiversity Conservation and Landscape Management Program, Simien Mountains National Park, Debark, Ethiopia
Tibebu Y. Simegn
Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Terry Sunderland
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
Terry Sunderland
Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Miroslav Svoboda
Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Hermann Taedoumg
Bioversity International, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Hermann Taedoumg
UK Research and Innovation, London, UK
James Taplin
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
David Taylor
Institute of Forestry and Conservation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sean C. Thomas
Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, East Dean, UK
Jonathan Timberlake
Forestry Development Authority of the Government of Liberia (FDA), Monrovia, Liberia
Darlington Tuagben
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Peter Umunay
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Jason Vleminckx
School of Natural Sciences, University of Bangor, Bangor, UK
Simon Willcock
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
Simon Willcock
University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia
John T. Woods
A.C.-S. conceived the study and assembled the AfriMont dataset. A.C.-S. and M.J.P.S. analysed the plot data (with contributions from S.L.L.) and wrote the manuscript. P.J.P. analysed forest extents and contributed to writing. S.L.L. conceived and managed the AfriTRON forest plot recensus programme. E.T.A.M. and V.A. helped compare plot data with remote sensing carbon maps. All co-authors read and approved the manuscript.
Source: Ecology - nature.com
