Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 03 12 2022
accepted: 01 11 2023
medline: 11 1 2024
pubmed: 11 1 2024
entrez: 10 1 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Trees structure the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations

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pubmed: 38200314
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z
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Journal Article

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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Declan L M Cooper (DLM)

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK. declan.cooper.16@ucl.ac.uk.
Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK. declan.cooper.16@ucl.ac.uk.

Simon L Lewis (SL)

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK. s.l.lewis@ucl.ac.uk.
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. s.l.lewis@ucl.ac.uk.

Martin J P Sullivan (MJP)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

Paulo I Prado (PI)

Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Hans Ter Steege (H)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Nicolas Barbier (N)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Ferry Slik (F)

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

Bonaventure Sonké (B)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Corneille E N Ewango (CEN)

Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management and Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Stephen Adu-Bredu (S)

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Kumasi, Ghana.

Kofi Affum-Baffoe (K)

Mensuration Unit, Forestry Commission of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana.

Daniel P P de Aguiar (DPP)

Procuradoria-Geral de Justiça, Ministério Público do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui (MA)

Medio Ambiente, PLUSPRETOL, Iquitos, Peru.

Shin-Ichiro Aiba (SI)

Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Bianca Weiss Albuquerque (BW)

Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos (FD)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Alfonso Alonso (A)

Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

Christian A Amani (CA)

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dário Dantas do Amaral (DD)

Coordenação de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.

Iêda Leão do Amaral (IL)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Ana Andrade (A)

Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda (IP)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Ilondea B Angoboy (IB)

Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Alejandro Araujo-Murakami (A)

Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Nicolás Castaño Arboleda (NC)

Herbario Amazónico Colombiano, Instituto SINCHI, Bogotá, Colombia.

Luzmila Arroyo (L)

Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Peter Ashton (P)

Bullard Emeritus Professor of Forestry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Gerardo A Aymard C (GA)

Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT), UNELLEZ-Guanare, Guanare, Venezuela.

Cláudia Baider (C)

The Mauritius Herbarium, Agricultural Services, Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security, Reduit, Mauritius.
Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Timothy R Baker (TR)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Michael Philippe Bessike Balinga (MPB)

Tetra Tech ARD, Accra, Ghana.

Henrik Balslev (H)

Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Aarhus, Denmark.

Lindsay F Banin (LF)

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, UK.

Olaf S Bánki (OS)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Chris Baraloto (C)

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

Edelcilio Marques Barbosa (EM)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa (FR)

ICNHS, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil.

Jos Barlow (J)

Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

Jean-Francois Bastin (JF)

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

Hans Beeckman (H)

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

Serge Begne (S)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Natacha Nssi Bengone (NN)

Ministry of Forests, Seas, Environment and Climate, Libreville, Gabon.

Erika Berenguer (E)

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

Nicholas Berry (N)

The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group, Edinburgh, UK.

Robert Bitariho (R)

Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mbarara, Uganda.

Pascal Boeckx (P)

Isotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Jan Bogaert (J)

Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liege, Liège, Belgium.

Bernard Bonyoma (B)

Section de la Foresterie, Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomique Yangambi, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Patrick Boundja (P)

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
Congo Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

Nils Bourland (N)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
Forest Resources Management, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Resources and Synergies Development, Singapore, Singapore.

Faustin Boyemba Bosela (F)

Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Fabian Brambach (F)

Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

Roel Brienen (R)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

David F R P Burslem (DFRP)

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

José Luís Camargo (JL)

Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Wegliane Campelo (W)

Universidade Federal do Amapá, Ciências Ambientais, Macapá, Brazil.

Angela Cano (A)

Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, UK.

Sasha Cárdenas (S)

Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Dairon Cárdenas López (D)

Herbario Amazónico Colombiano, Instituto SINCHI, Bogotá, Colombia.

Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo (R)

ICNHS, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil.

Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez (YA)

Programa de Maestria de Manejo de Bosques, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.

Fernanda Antunes Carvalho (FA)

Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Luisa Fernanda Casas (LF)

Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Hernán Castellanos (H)

Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de Guayana, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela.

Carolina V Castilho (CV)

Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal de Roraima, Embrapa Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil.

Carlos Cerón (C)

Escuela de Biología Herbario Alfredo Paredes, Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador.

Colin A Chapman (CA)

Biology Department, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa.

Jerome Chave (J)

Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.

Phourin Chhang (P)

Institute of Forest and Wildlife Research and Development (IRD), Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Wanlop Chutipong (W)

Conservation Ecology Program, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand.

George B Chuyong (GB)

Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.

Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra (BBL)

Instituto de Biociências, Departamento Botanica, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Connie J Clark (CJ)

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

Fernanda Coelho de Souza (F)

Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
BeZero, London, UK.

James A Comiskey (JA)

Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

David A Coomes (DA)

Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Fernando Cornejo Valverde (F)

Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program, Madre de Dios, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Diego F Correa (DF)

Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Flávia R C Costa (FRC)

Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa (JBP)

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amapá, Macapá, Brazil.

Pierre Couteron (P)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Heike Culmsee (H)

State Agency for Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology, Güstrow, Germany.

Aida Cuni-Sanchez (A)

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
Department of International Environmental and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

Francisco Dallmeier (F)

Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

Gabriel Damasco (G)

Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gilles Dauby (G)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Nállarett Dávila (N)

Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.

Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza (HP)

Servicios de Biodiversidad EIRL, Iquitos, Peru.

Jose Don T De Alban (JDT)

Centre for Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Phillipines Programme, Fauna and Flora International, Cambridge, UK.

Rafael L de Assis (RL)

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Brazil.

Charles De Canniere (C)

Landscape Ecology and Vegetal Production Systems Unit, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Thales De Haulleville (T)

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

Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim (M)

Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Amapá (IEPA), Macapá, Brazil.

Layon O Demarchi (LO)

Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Kyle G Dexter (KG)

School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Anthony Di Fiore (A)

Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador.

Hazimah Haji Mohammad Din (HHM)

Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.

Mathias I Disney (MI)

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK.

Brice Yannick Djiofack (BY)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA), Wood Laboratory of Yangambi, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Marie-Noël K Djuikouo (MK)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.

Tran Van Do (TV)

Silviculture Research Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Jean-Louis Doucet (JL)

Forest Is Life, TERRA, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Liège University, Liège, Belgium.

Freddie C Draper (FC)

Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Vincent Droissart (V)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Joost F Duivenvoorden (JF)

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Julien Engel (J)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.

Vittoria Estienne (V)

Congo Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

William Farfan-Rios (W)

Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in Saint Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.
Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA.

Sophie Fauset (S)

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.

Kenneth J Feeley (KJ)

Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL, USA.

Yuri Oliveira Feitosa (YO)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia (Botânica), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Ted R Feldpausch (TR)

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Department of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Cid Ferreira (C)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Joice Ferreira (J)

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil.

Leandro Valle Ferreira (LV)

Coordenação de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.

Christine D Fletcher (CD)

Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia.

Bernardo Monteiro Flores (BM)

Postgraduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

Alusine Fofanah (A)

The Gola Rainforest National Park, Kenema, Sierra Leone.

Ernest G Foli (EG)

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Kumasi, Ghana.

Émile Fonty (É)

Direction Régionale de la Guyane, Office National des Forêts, Cayenne, French Guiana.
Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Gabriella M Fredriksson (GM)

Pro Natura Foundation, Balikpapan, Indonesia.

Alfredo Fuentes (A)

Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA.
Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Carrera de Biología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia.

David Galbraith (D)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales (GP)

Servicios de Biodiversidad EIRL, Iquitos, Peru.

Karina Garcia-Cabrera (K)

Biology Department and Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA.

Roosevelt García-Villacorta (R)

Programa Restauración de Ecosistemas (PRE), Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA), Tambopata, Peru.
Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC), Iquitos, Peru.

Vitor H F Gomes (VHF)

Escola de Negócios Tecnologia e Inovação, Centro Universitário do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.

Ricardo Zárate Gómez (RZ)

PROTERRA, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru.

Therany Gonzales (T)

ACEER Foundation, Puerto Maldonado, Peru.

Rogerio Gribel (R)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Marcelino Carneiro Guedes (MC)

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amapá, Macapá, Brazil.

Juan Ernesto Guevara (JE)

Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem (KR)

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Jefferson S Hall (JS)

Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

Keith C Hamer (KC)

School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Alan C Hamilton (AC)

Honorary Professor, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, China.

David J Harris (DJ)

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Rhett D Harrison (RD)

World Agroforestry, Lusaka, Zambia.

Terese B Hart (TB)

Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA.

Andy Hector (A)

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

Terry W Henkel (TW)

Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA, USA.

John Herbohn (J)

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

Mireille B N Hockemba (MBN)

Congo Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

Bruce Hoffman (B)

Amazon Conservation Team, Arlington, USA.

Milena Holmgren (M)

Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Euridice N Honorio Coronado (EN)

Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru.
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.

Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco (I)

Herbario HAG, Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), Puerto Maldonado, Peru.

Wannes Hubau (W)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Department of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Nobuo Imai (N)

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

Mariana Victória Irume (MV)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Patrick A Jansen (PA)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama.
Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Kathryn J Jeffery (KJ)

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.

Eliana M Jimenez (EM)

Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Fauna y Flora Silvestre, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia.

Tommaso Jucker (T)

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

André Braga Junqueira (AB)

Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Michelle Kalamandeen (M)

School of Earth, Environment and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Narcisse G Kamdem (NG)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Kuswata Kartawinata (K)

Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA.

Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu (E)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
UGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

John M Katembo (JM)

Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Elizabeth Kearsley (E)

Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVElab), Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

David Kenfack (D)

Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

Michael Kessler (M)

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Thiri Toe Khaing (TT)

Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, China.
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Timothy J Killeen (TJ)

Agteca-Amazonica, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Kanehiro Kitayama (K)

Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Bente Klitgaard (B)

Department for Accelerated Taxonomy, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, UK.

Nicolas Labrière (N)

Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.

Yves Laumonier (Y)

Forest and Environment Program, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.

Susan G W Laurance (SGW)

Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

William F Laurance (WF)

Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Félix Laurent (F)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA), Wood Laboratory of Yangambi, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Tinh Cong Le (TC)

Viet Nature Conservation Centre, Hanoi, Viet Nam.

Trai Trong Le (TT)

Viet Nature Conservation Centre, Hanoi, Viet Nam.

Miguel E Leal (ME)

Uganda Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Kampala, Uganda.

Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo (EM)

Divisao de Sensoriamento Remoto (DSR), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil.

Aurora Levesley (A)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Moses B Libalah (MB)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Juan Carlos Licona (JC)

Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho (DA)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Jeremy A Lindsell (JA)

The RSPB, Sandy, UK.
A Rocha International, Cambridge, UK.

Aline Lopes (A)

Department of Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil.

Maria Aparecida Lopes (MA)

Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.

Jon C Lovett (JC)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, UK.

Richard Lowe (R)

Botany Department, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

José Rafael Lozada (JR)

Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.

Xinghui Lu (X)

Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.

Nestor K Luambua (NK)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA), Wood Laboratory of Yangambi, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Faculté des sciences Agronomiques, Université Officielle de Mbujimayi, Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Bruno Garcia Luize (BG)

Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.

Paul Maas (P)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

José Leonardo Lima Magalhães (JLL)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil.

William E Magnusson (WE)

Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Ni Putu Diana Mahayani (NPD)

Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Jean-Remy Makana (JR)

Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire d'Écologie et Aménagement Forestier, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Yadvinder Malhi (Y)

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

Lorena Maniguaje Rincón (L)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Asyraf Mansor (A)

School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia.
Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia.

Angelo Gilberto Manzatto (AG)

Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Unir, Porto Velho, Brazil.

Beatriz S Marimon (BS)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil.

Ben Hur Marimon-Junior (BH)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil.

Andrew R Marshall (AR)

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
Flamingo Land, Kirby Misperton, UK.
Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.

Maria Pires Martins (MP)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Faustin M Mbayu (FM)

Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru.

Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros (MB)

Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasilia, Brazil.

Italo Mesones (I)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Faizah Metali (F)

Environmental and Life Sciences Programme, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.

Vianet Mihindou (V)

Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon.
Ministère de la Forêt, de la Mer, de l'Environnement, Chargé du Plan Climat, Libreville, Gabon.

Jerome Millet (J)

Office français de la biodiversité, Vincennes, France.

William Milliken (W)

Department for Ecosystem Stewardship, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, UK.

Hugo F Mogollón (HF)

Endangered Species Coalition, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

Jean-François Molino (JF)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Mohd Nizam Mohd Said (MN)

Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.

Abel Monteagudo Mendoza (A)

Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru.
Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru.

Juan Carlos Montero (JC)

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Sam Moore (S)

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

Bonifacio Mostacedo (B)

Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto (LF)

Servicios de Biodiversidad EIRL, Iquitos, Peru.

Sharif Ahmed Mukul (SA)

Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, Australia.
Department of Environment and Development Studies, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Pantaleo K T Munishi (PKT)

Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.

Hidetoshi Nagamasu (H)

The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento (HEM)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Marcelo Trindade Nascimento (MT)

Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goyatacazes, Brazil.

David Neill (D)

Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador.

Reuben Nilus (R)

Forest Research Centre, Sandakan, Malaysia.

Janaína Costa Noronha (JC)

ICNHS, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil.

Laurent Nsenga (L)

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

Percy Núñez Vargas (P)

Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru.

Lucas Ojo (L)

University of Abeokuta, Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Alexandre A Oliveira (AA)

Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Edmar Almeida de Oliveira (EA)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil.

Fidèle Evouna Ondo (FE)

Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon.

Walter Palacios Cuenca (W)

Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Universidad Técnica del Norte, Quito, Ecuador.

Susamar Pansini (S)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia PPG-Bionorte, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil.

Marcelo Petratti Pansonato (MP)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Marcos Ríos Paredes (MR)

Servicios de Biodiversidad EIRL, Iquitos, Peru.

Ekananda Paudel (E)

Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.

Daniela Pauletto (D)

Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil.

Richard G Pearson (RG)

Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.

José Luis Marcelo Pena (JLM)

Universidad Nacional de Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru.

R Toby Pennington (RT)

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Department of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Carlos A Peres (CA)

School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Andrea Permana (A)

University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.

Pascal Petronelli (P)

Cirad UMR Ecofog, AgrosParisTech, CNRS, INRAE, Université Guyane, Kourou Cedex, France.

Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora (MC)

Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM, Tena, Ecuador.

Juan Fernando Phillips (JF)

Fundación Puerto Rastrojo, Bogotá, Colombia.

Oliver L Phillips (OL)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Georgia Pickavance (G)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade (MTF)

Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Nigel C A Pitman (NCA)

Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA.

Pierre Ploton (P)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Andreas Popelier (A)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
UGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

John R Poulsen (JR)

Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO, USA.

Adriana Prieto (A)

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Richard B Primack (RB)

Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

Hari Priyadi (H)

Department of Resource and Environmental Economics (ESL), IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia.

Lan Qie (L)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.

Adriano Costa Quaresma (AC)

Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
Wetland Department, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Rastatt, Germany.

Helder Lima de Queiroz (HL)

Diretoria Técnico-Científica, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, Brazil.

Hirma Ramirez-Angulo (H)

Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.

José Ferreira Ramos (JF)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Neidiane Farias Costa Reis (NFC)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia PPG-Bionorte, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil.

Jan Reitsma (J)

Waardenburg Ecology, Culemborg, The Netherlands.

Juan David Cardenas Revilla (JDC)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Terhi Riutta (T)

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
College of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Gonzalo Rivas-Torres (G)

Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador.
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Iyan Robiansyah (I)

Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Center for Plant Conservation Bogor Botanic Gardens, Indonesian Institute of Science, Bogor, Indonesia.

Maira Rocha (M)

Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues (DJ)

ICNHS, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil.

M Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ronderos (ME)

Centre for Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

Francesco Rovero (F)

Deparment of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), Trento, Italy.

Andes H Rozak (AH)

Research Center for Plant Conservation, Botanic Gardens and Forestry, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Bogor, Indonesia.

Agustín Rudas (A)

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Ervan Rutishauser (E)

InfoFlora, Botanical Garden of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Daniel Sabatier (D)

AMAP, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.
International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Le Bienfaiteur Sagang (LB)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Adeilza Felipe Sampaio (AF)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia PPG-Bionorte, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil.

Ismayadi Samsoedin (I)

Forest Research and Development Center, Research, Development and Innovation Agency, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bogor, Indonesia.

Manichanh Satdichanh (M)

Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.

Juliana Schietti (J)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Jochen Schöngart (J)

Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller (VV)

Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM)-Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB1), Manaus, Brazil.

Naret Seuaturien (N)

World Wildlife Fund Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand.

Douglas Sheil (D)

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

Rodrigo Sierra (R)

GeoIS, Quito, Ecuador.

Miles R Silman (MR)

Biology Department and Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA.

Thiago Sanna Freire Silva (TSF)

Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.

José Renan da Silva Guimarães (JR)

Amcel Amapá Florestal e Celulose SA, Santana, Brazil.

Murielle Simo-Droissart (M)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Marcelo Fragomeni Simon (MF)

Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasilia, Brazil.

Plinio Sist (P)

Cirad-ES, Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D, Montpellier, France.

Thaiane R Sousa (TR)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Emanuelle de Sousa Farias (E)

Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis da Amazônia (EDTA), Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil.
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Luiz de Souza Coelho (L)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Dominick V Spracklen (DV)

School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Suzanne M Stas (SM)

School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Robert Steinmetz (R)

World Wildlife Fund Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand.

Pablo R Stevenson (PR)

Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Juliana Stropp (J)

Biogeography Department, Trier University, Trier, Germany.

Rahayu S Sukri (RS)

Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.

Terry C H Sunderland (TCH)

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Eizi Suzuki (E)

Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.

Michael D Swaine (MD)

Department of Plant and Soil Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Jianwei Tang (J)

Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China.

James Taplin (J)

UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK, London, UK.

David M Taylor (DM)

Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

J Sebastián Tello (JS)

Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA.

John Terborgh (J)

Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Nicolas Texier (N)

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Ida Theilade (I)

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

Duncan W Thomas (DW)

School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA.

Raquel Thomas (R)

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana.

Sean C Thomas (SC)

Institute of Forestry and Conservation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Milton Tirado (M)

GeoIS, Quito, Ecuador.

Benjamin Toirambe (B)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Ministère de l'Environnement et Développement Durable, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

José Julio de Toledo (JJ)

Universidade Federal do Amapá, Ciências Ambientais, Macapá, Brazil.

Kyle W Tomlinson (KW)

Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, China.
Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, China.

Armando Torres-Lezama (A)

Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.

Hieu Dang Tran (HD)

Viet Nature Conservation Centre, Hanoi, Viet Nam.

John Tshibamba Mukendi (J)

Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université de Mbujimayi, Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Roven D Tumaneng (RD)

Phillipines Programme, Fauna and Flora International, Cambridge, UK.
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.

Maria Natalia Umaña (MN)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Peter M Umunay (PM)

Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA.
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo (LE)

Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.

Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval (EH)

Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St Louis, MO, USA.
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru.

Luis Valenzuela Gamarra (L)

Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru.

Tinde R Van Andel (TR)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Martin van de Bult (M)

Doi Tung Development Project, Social Development Department, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

Jaqueline van de Pol (J)

Compagnie des Bois du Gabon, Port Gentil, Gabon.

Geertje van der Heijden (G)

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Rodolfo Vasquez (R)

Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru.

César I A Vela (CIA)

Escuela Profesional de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Puerto Maldonado, Peru.

Eduardo Martins Venticinque (EM)

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

Hans Verbeeck (H)

CAVElab-Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Rizza Karen A Veridiano (RKA)

Phillipines Programme, Fauna and Flora International, Cambridge, UK.
FORLIANCE, Bonn, Germany.

Alberto Vicentini (A)

Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira (ICG)

Coordenação de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.

Emilio Vilanova Torre (E)

Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.
Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA.

Daniel Villarroel (D)

Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra (BE)

Direccíon de Evaluación Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre, Magdalena del Mar, Peru.

Jason Vleminckx (J)

International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Faculté des Sciences, Service d'Évolution Biologique et Écologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Patricio von Hildebrand (P)

Fundación Estación de Biología, Bogotá, Colombia.

Vincent Antoine Vos (VA)

Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales de la Amazonía, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia.

Corine Vriesendorp (C)

Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA.

Edward L Webb (EL)

Viikki Tropical Resources Institute, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Helsinki, Finland.

Lee J T White (LJT)

Ministry of Forests, Seas, Environment and Climate, Libreville, Gabon.
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
Institut de Recherche en Écologie Tropicale, Libreville, Gabon.

Serge Wich (S)

School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

Florian Wittmann (F)

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
Wetland Department, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Rastatt, Germany.

Roderick Zagt (R)

Tropenbos International, Ede, The Netherlands.

Runguo Zang (R)

Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.

Charles Eugene Zartman (CE)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.

Lise Zemagho (L)

International Joint Laboratory DYCOFAC, IRD-UYI-IRGM, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Egleé L Zent (EL)

Laboratory of Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela.

Stanford Zent (S)

Laboratory of Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela.

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