Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

Forest Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (FACAI), Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Jingjing Liang, Mo Zhou & Akane O. Abbasi

Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

Javier G. P. Gamarra & Antonello Salis

GIP ECOFOR, Paris, France

Nicolas Picard

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Bryan Pijanowski, Douglass F. Jacobs & Minjee Park

Institute for Global Change Biology, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Peter B. Reich

Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

Peter B. Reich

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

Peter B. Reich

Crowther Lab, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Thomas W. Crowther

Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

Gert-Jan Nabuurs

Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Frans Bongers, Mathieu Decuyper, Marc Parren, Lourens Poorter & Douglas Sheil

Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain

Sergio de-Miguel

Joint Research Unit CTFC—Agrotecnio—CERCA, Solsona, Spain

Sergio de-Miguel & Albert Morera

Institute of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Evironmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Jingyun Fang

Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, USA

Christopher W. Woodall

Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

Jens-Christian Svenning

Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

Jens-Christian Svenning

School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Tommaso Jucker

TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium

Jean-Francois Bastin

Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

Susan K. Wiser

Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam

Ferry Slik

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier, France

Bruno Hérault

INP-HB (Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouet-Boigny), University of Montpellier, Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

Bruno Hérault

Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Giorgio Alberti

Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

Giorgio Alberti

Institute of Bioeconomy, CNR, Sesto, Italy

Giorgio Alberti

Natural and Built Environments Research Centre, School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Gunnar Keppel

Biometris, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

Geerten M. Hengeveld

Wageningen University & Research, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen, Netherlands

Geerten M. Hengeveld

Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany

Pierre L. Ibisch

School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Carlos A. Silva, Eben N. Broadbent & Carine Klauberg

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Hans ter Steege

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Santa Cruz, Argentina

Pablo L. Peri

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

David A. Coomes

Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Eric B. Searle & Han Y. H. Chen

University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Klaus von Gadow

Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Klaus von Gadow

University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Klaus von Gadow

Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, Poland

Bogdan Jaroszewicz

Swiss National Forest Inventory/Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Meinrad Abegg

UFR Biosciences, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Yves C. Adou Yao & Anny E. N’Guessan

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez

Biodiversity Dynamics, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano

Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Trebon, Czech Republic

Jan Altman & Jiri Dolezal

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic

Jan Altman & Miroslav Svoboda

Escuela ECAPMA, National Open University and Distance (Colombia) | UNAD, Bogotá, Colombia

Esteban Alvarez-Dávila

Departamento de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González

Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Luciana F. Alves

Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Daloa, Ivory Coast

Bienvenu H. K. Amani

Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Christian A. Amani

Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany

Christian Ammer & Peter Schall

Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Bhely Angoboy Ilondea

Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Division of Forestry and Forest Resources, Ås, Norway

Clara Antón-Fernández

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Valerio Avitabile

Compensation International Progress S.A., Bogotá, Colombia

Gerardo A. Aymard

Laboratory of Applied Ecology, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

Akomian F. Azihou

Scientific Services, South African National Parks, Knysna, South Africa

Johan A. Baard & Graham P. Durrheim

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Timothy R. Baker, Simon L. Lewis & Oliver L. Phillips

Department of Geomatics, Forest Research Institute, Sekocin Stary, Raszyn, Poland

Radomir Balazy & Krzysztof J. Stereńczak

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

Meredith L. Bastian

Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Meredith L. Bastian

Department of Environment, Universtité du Cinquantenaire de Lwiro, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Rodrigue Batumike

Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Marijn Bauters

Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Marijn Bauters & Pascal Boeckx

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

Hans Beeckman, Thales de Haulleville & Wannes Hubau

Balai Penelitian dan Pengembangan Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan, Manokwari, Indonesia

Nithanel Mikael Hendrik Benu & Relawan Kuswandi

Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Robert Bitariho

Université de Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium

Jan Bogaert & Thales de Haulleville

Integrated Center for Research, Development and Innovation in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnologies, and Distributed Systems for Fabrication and Control (MANSiD), University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava, Suceava, Romania

Olivier Bouriaud

Department of Forestry Sciences, ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ricardo G. César & Vanessa S. Moreno

Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Freising, Germany

Susanne Brandl

Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

Francis Q. Brearley, Giacomo Sellan & Martin J. P. Sullivan

Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, Mexico

Jaime Briseno-Reyes, José Javier Corral-Rivas & Daniel José Vega-Nieva

Institute of Biology and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Helge Bruelheide

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Helge Bruelheide

Development Economics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Erwin Bulte

Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Ann Christine Catlin, Lev Gorenstein, Geoffrey Lentner & Xiao Zhu

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti

Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Chelsea Chisholm

IFER – Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, Jilove u Prahy, Czech Republic

Emil Cienciala

Global Change Research Institute of the CAS, Brno, Czech Republic

Emil Cienciala

Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas CEP, Biologia, Brazil

Gabriel D. Colletta

Dirección Nacional de Bosques (DNB), Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible (MAyDS), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Anibal Cuchietti

Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway

Aida Cuni-Sanchez

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK

Aida Cuni-Sanchez

Department of Environmental Science, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, Guntur, India

Javid A. Dar

Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Madhya Pradesh, India

Javid A. Dar & Subashree Kothandaraman

Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Javid A. Dar, Subashree Kothandaraman, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy & Somaiah Sundarapandian

Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics & Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Biology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Selvadurai Dayanandan

Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Sylvain Delabye, Stepan Janecek, Yannick Klomberg, Vincent Maicher & Robert Tropek

Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Sylvain Delabye, Tom M. Fayle, Vincent Maicher & Robert Tropek

Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParistech, CNRS, Inrae, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana

Géraldine Derroire, Aurélie Dourdain & Eric Marcon

Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Ben DeVries

National Forest Authority, Kampala, Uganda

John Diisi

Department of Silviculture Foundation, Silviculture Research Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tran Van Do

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Jiri Dolezal

IPHAMETRA, IRET, CENAREST, Libreville, Gabon

Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang

Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Corneille E. N. Ewango, Faustin M. Mbayu & Eric Katembo Wasingya

Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Toowong, Queensland, Australia

Teresa J. Eyre, Victor J. Neldner & Michael R. Ngugi

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Tom M. Fayle

Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Lethicia Flavine N. Feunang, Banoho L. P. R. Kabelong, Moses B. Libalah, Louis N. Nforbelie, Emile Narcisse N. Njila & Melanie C. Nyako

Natural Resources Institute Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Leena Finér

Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Markus Fischer

Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden

Jonas Fridman & Bertil Westerlund

Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Lorenzo Frizzera, Damiano Gianelle & Mirco Rodeghiero

Herbário Dr. Roberto Miguel Klein, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Brazil

André L. de Gasper

Glick Designs, LLC, Hadley, MA, USA

Henry B. Glick

CIIDIR Durango, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Durango, Mexico

Maria Socorro Gonzalez-Elizondo

Département des Sciences et Technologies de l’Environnement, Université du Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi

Richard Habonayo

Faculté des Sciences, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Olivier J. Hardy

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

David J. Harris & Axel Dalberg Poulsen

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Andrew Hector

Department of Plant Systematics, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany

Andreas Hemp

Helmholtz GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Potsdam, Germany

Martin Herold

Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, Liberia Representation, Monrovia, Liberia

Annika Hillers

Centre for Conservation Science, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK

Annika Hillers

Department of Environment, Laboratory for Wood Technology (UGent-Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Wannes Hubau

AMAP, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France

Thomas Ibanez

Department of Forest Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuo Imai

Biology Department, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Gerard Imani

Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, Poland

Andrzej M. Jagodzinski & Jacek Oleksyn

Poznan University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Game Management and Forest Protection, Poznan, Poland

Andrzej M. Jagodzinski

Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Vivian Kvist Johannsen & Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas

Plant Biology Department, Biology Institute, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

Carlos A. Joly

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Blaise Jumbam

Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Nkolbisson, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Yaounde, Cameroon

Blaise Jumbam

Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Goytom Abraha Kahsay

Forestry Faculty, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi, Russia

Viktor Karminov & Olga Martynenko

Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA

Kuswata Kartawinata

Labo Botanique, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Justin N. Kassi

Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Elizabeth Kearsley & Hans Verbeeck

Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, USA

Deborah K. Kennard

Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidalaya (A Central University), Sagar, India

Mohammed Latif Khan

Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Department of Forest Resource Assessment, Nairobi, Kenya

John N. Kigomo

Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyun Seok Kim

Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyun Seok Kim

National Center for Agro Meteorology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyun Seok Kim

Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyun Seok Kim

Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

Henn Korjus & Mait Lang

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Florian Kraxner, Dmitry Schepaschenko & Anatoly Z. Shvidenko

Department of Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India

Amit Kumar

Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Tõravere, Estonia

Mait Lang

School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Michael J. Lawes

Department of Forest Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Brazil

Rodrigo V. Leite

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Simon L. Lewis

Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory (LaBosystE), Higher Teacher’s Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Moses B. Libalah

Laboratoire d’Écologie et Aménagement Forestier, Département d’Ecologie et de Gestion des Ressources Végétales, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Janvier Lisingo

Instituto de Silvicultura e Industria de la Madera, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Durango, Mexico

Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano & Maria Guadalupe Nava-Miranda

Faculty of Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Huicui Lu

Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS (CEPF RAS), Moscow, Russia

Natalia V. Lukina

Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark

Anne Mette Lykke

Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Vincent Maicher & John R. Poulsen

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Brian S. Maitner

AgroParisTech, UMR AMAP, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France

Eric Marcon

University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Andrew R. Marshall

University of York, York, UK

Andrew R. Marshall

Flamingo Land Ltd., North Yorkshire, UK

Andrew R. Marshall

Department of Wildlife Management, College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania

Emanuel H. Martin

Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

Musingo T. E. Mbuvi

Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Jorge A. Meave

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Cory Merow

Department of Forest Management and Forest Economics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Stanislaw Miscicki

Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, Australia

Sharif A. Mukul & Alain S. K. Ngute

Fieldstation Fabrikschleichach, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Jörg C. Müller

Bavarian Forest Nationalpark, Grafenau, Germany

Jörg C. Müller

Fakultas Kehutanan, Universitas Papua, Jalan Gunung Salju Amban, Manokwari Papua Barat, Indonesia

Agustinus Murdjoko

Limbe Botanic Garden, Limbe, Cameroon

Litonga Elias Ndive

Institute of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia

Radovan V. Nevenic

Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Buea, Cameroon

Michael L. Ngoh & Moses Nsanyi Sainge

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Michael L. Ngoh

Applied Biology and Ecology Research Unit, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

Alain S. K. Ngute

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

Thomas O. Ochuodho

UQAM, Centre for Forest Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alain Paquette

V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute of FRC KSC SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Elena I. Parfenova, Dmitry Schepaschenko & Nadja Tchebakova

Urban Management and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

Sebastian Pfautsch

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia—INPA, Grupo Ecologia. Monitoramento e Uso Sustentável de Áreas Úmidas MAUA, Manaus, Brazil

Maria T. F. Piedade, Jochen Schöngart & Natalia Targhetta

Centro de Formação em Ciências Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Ilhéus, Brazil

Daniel Piotto & Samir G. Rolim

Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Martina Pollastrini & Federico Selvi

Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Chair of Forest Growth and Yield Science, Munich, Germany

Hans Pretzsch

Centro Agricoltura, Alimenti, Ambiente, University of Trento, San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Mirco Rodeghiero

Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Francesco Rovero

MUSE—Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy

Francesco Rovero

Infoflora c/o Botanical Garden of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Ervan Rutishauser

Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (RIFR), Tehran, Iran

Khosro Sagheb-Talebi

Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India

Purabi Saikia

Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF), One World Trade Center, New York, NY, USA

Moses Nsanyi Sainge

Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile

Christian Salas-Eljatib

Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

Christian Salas-Eljatib

Departamento de Silvicultura y Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Christian Salas-Eljatib

Рeoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

Dmitry Schepaschenko

University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Freiburg, Germany

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Institution with City, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Bernhard Schmid

National Forest Centre, Zvolen, Slovak Republic

Vladimír Šebeň

CNRS-UMR LEEISA, Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana

Giacomo Sellan

Universite de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRA, Nancy, France

Josep M. Serra-Diaz

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Situ Gede, Bogor Barat, Indonesia

Douglas Sheil

Cirad, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Plinio Sist

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Ecologia, Natal, Brazil

Alexandre F. Souza

School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Mike D. Swaine

Herbarium Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London, UK

Liam A. Trethowan

Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université de Mbujimayi, Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo

John Tshibamba Mukendi

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA

Peter Mbanda Umunay

Ural State Forest Engineering University, Botanical Garden, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Vladimir A. Usoltsev

DIBAF Department, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy

Gaia Vaglio Laurin & Riccardo Valentini

LINCGlobal, MNCN, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Fernando Valladares

Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, AA Wageningen, Netherlands

Fons van der Plas

Agricultural High School, ESAV, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, IPV, Viseu, Portugal

Helder Viana

Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences, CITAB, UTAD, Quinta de Prados, Vila Real, Portugal

Helder Viana

Department of Forest Engineering, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Brazil

Alexander C. Vibrans

Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Campinas, Brazil

Simone A. Vieira

International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

Jason Vleminckx

Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Catherine E. Waite

Sanya Nanfan Research Institute, Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Hainan University, Sanya, China

Hua-Feng Wang & Zhi-Xin Zhu

Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Taita Taveta Research Centre, Wundanyi, Kenya

Chemuku Wekesa

Department of Wetland Ecology, Institute for Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Rastatt, Germany

Florian Wittmann

Department of Forest Management, Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname

Verginia Wortel

Polish State Forests-Coordination Centre for Environmental Projects, Warsaw, Poland

Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki

Research Center of Forest Management Engineering of State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Chunyu Zhang & Xiuhai Zhao

Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Jun Zhu

Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, DFR Eaux, Forêts et Environnement, BP, Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

Irie C. Zo-Bi

Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Cang Hui

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa

Cang Hui