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High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests.
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- Unexpected Large Photosynthetic Thermal Plasticity of Montane Andean Trees.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Environmental drivers of spatial variation in tropical forest canopy height: Insights from NASA's GEDI spaceborne LiDAR.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- High Inter-Specific Diversity and Seasonality of Trunk Radial Growth in Trees Along an Afrotropical Elevational Gradient.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Linking leaf traits to growth responses under climate warming in tropical trees.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Montane evergreen forest deforestation for banana plantations decreased soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stores to alarming levels.Carbon balance and management · 2024Article
- Evidence of thermophilization in Afromontane forests.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The effects of environmental variability and forest management on natural forest carbon stock in northwestern Ethiopia.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in West Africa and Amazonia.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The neglected role of abandoned cropland in supporting both food security and climate change mitigation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda.Nature climate change · 2023Article
- Feedback in tropical forests of the Anthropocene.Global change biology · 2022Review
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102 authors.
Aida Cuni-SanchezDepartment of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK. a.cuni-sanchez@york.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8619-1095
Martin J P SullivanDepartment of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5955-0483
Philip J PlattsDepartment of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0153-0121
Simon L LewisSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-6851
Rob MarchantDepartment of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
Gérard ImaniBiology Department, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Wannes HubauService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3795-4986
Iveren AbiemUniversity of Jos, Jos, Nigeria.
Hari AdhikariDepartment of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9089-3249
Tomas AlbrechtDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9213-0034
Jan AltmanInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science, Třeboň, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4879-5773
Christian AmaniBiology Department, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Abreham B AneseyeeCollege of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Valerio AvitabileEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3646-052X
Lindsay BaninUK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-3914
Rodrigue BatumikeUniversité du Cinquantenaire Lwiro, Département de sciences de l'environnement, Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Marijn BautersIsotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-6639
Hans BeeckmanService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8954-6277
Serge K BegneSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Amy C BennettSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Robert BitarihoInstitute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3461-0013
Pascal BoeckxIsotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3998-0010
Jan BogaertBiodiversity and Landscape Unit, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liege, Liège, Belgium.
Achim BräuningInstitute for Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4229
Franklin BulonvuDépartement 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.
Neil D BurgessUN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK.
Kim CaldersComputational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVElab), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4562-2538
Colin ChapmanDepartment of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
Hazel ChapmanNigerian Montane Forest Project, Yelwa Village, Nigeria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8509-703X
James ComiskeyInventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-1269
Thales de HaullevilleUniversity of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Mathieu DecuyperWorld Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1713-8562
Ben DeVriesGeography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Jiri DolezalInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science, Třeboň, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5829-4051
Vincent DroissartPlant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9798-5616
Corneille EwangoFaculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Senbeta FeyeraCollege of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Aster GebrekirstosDendrochronology Laboratory, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya.
Roy GereauMissouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5863-4466
Martin GilpinSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Dismas HakizimanaDepartment of Biology, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi.
Jefferson HallSmithsonian Institution Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4761-9268
Alan HamiltonKunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China.
Olivier HardyUniversité Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Terese HartDivision of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA.
Janne HeiskanenDepartment of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3899-8860
Andreas HempDepartment of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Martin HeroldLaboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0246-6886
Ulrike HiltnerInstitute for Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
David HorakDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-1617
Marie-Noel KamdemPlant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Charles KayijamaheInternational Gorilla Conservation Programme, Musanze, Rwanda.
David KenfackSmithsonian Institution Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-3388
Mwangi J KinyanjuiDepartment of Natural Resources, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya.
Julia KleinDepartment of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Janvier LisingoFaculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Jon LovettSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Mark LungEco2librium LLC, Boise, ID, USA.
Jean-Remy MakanaDepartment of Ecology, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Yadvinder MalhiEnvironmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3503-4783
Andrew MarshallDepartment of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
Emanuel H MartinCollege of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1801-5131
Edward T A MitchardSchool of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5690-4055
Alexandra MorelDepartment of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0905-8079
John T MukendiService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Tom MullerIndependent Botanist, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Felix NchuDepartment of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9910-5085
Brigitte NyirambangutseBiology Department, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4395-7641
Joseph OkelloIsotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4462-3923
Kelvin S-H PehSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-1341
Petri PellikkaDepartment of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Oliver L PhillipsSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8993-6168
Andrew PlumptreKey Biodiversity Areas Secretariat, BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-4047
Lan QieSchool of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
Francesco RoveroDepartment of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Moses N SaingeTropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Mundemba, Cameroon.
Christine B SchmittCenter for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8527-9682
Ondrej SedlacekDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Alain S K NguteTropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7090-5452
Douglas SheilForest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-6591
Demisse ShelemeWater and Land Resources Center, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Tibebu Y SimegnAfrican Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Biodiversity Conservation and Landscape Management Program, Simien Mountains National Park, Debark, Ethiopia.
Murielle Simo-DroissartPlant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Bonaventure SonkéPlant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4310-3603
Teshome SoromessaCollege of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3680-0240
Terry SunderlandFaculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Miroslav SvobodaDepartment of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Hermann TaedoumgDepartment of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
James TaplinUK Research and Innovation, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7639-9244
David TaylorDepartment of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6098-5636
Sean C ThomasInstitute of Forestry and Conservation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0686-2483
Jonathan TimberlakeBiodiversity Foundation for Africa, East Dean, UK.
Darlington TuagbenForestry Development Authority of the Government of Liberia (FDA), Monrovia, Liberia.
Peter UmunaySchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Eustrate UzabahoInternational Gorilla Conservation Programme, Musanze, Rwanda.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7563-6455
Hans VerbeeckComputational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVElab), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-0168
Jason VleminckxDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7600-9170
Göran WallinDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5359-1102
Charlotte WheelerSchool of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Simon WillcockSchool of Natural Sciences, University of Bangor, Bangor, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9534-9114
John T WoodsUniversity of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia.
Etienne ZiberaBiology Department, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
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Abstract
Tropical forests store 40-50 per cent of terrestrial vegetation carbon
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