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ArticleCommunications earth & environment2026

Carbon dioxide removals by tropical moist forests offset most land-use emissions across 18 Afrotropical countries.

William W M Verbiest, Marijn Bauters, Simon L Lewis, Félicien Meunier, Luke T Smallman, Philippe Ciais, Jean-François Bastin, Pierre Regnier, Adeline Fayolle, Anaïs Gorel and 12 more

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Article in Communications earth & environment, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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22 authors.

William W M VerbiestDepartment of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-0548-6455
Marijn BautersDepartment of Environment, Q-ForestLab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0978-6639
Simon L LewisSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8066-6851
Félicien MeunierDepartment of Environment, Q-ForestLab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2486-309X
Luke T SmallmanSchool of GeoSciences and National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0835-1003
Philippe CiaisLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8560-4943
Jean-François BastinTERRA Teaching and Research Centre (Forest is Life), Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2602-7247
Pierre RegnierDepartment of Geoscience, Environment & Society (DGES)-BGEOSYS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-4531-0868
Adeline FayolleTERRA Teaching and Research Centre (Forest is Life), Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6770-0031
Anaïs GorelTERRA Teaching and Research Centre (Forest is Life), Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0768-5615
Jean-Remy MakanaFaculté des Sciences, Laboratoire d'Écologie et Aménagement Forestier, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.ORCID 0000-0002-6006-2938
Corneille E N EwangoFaculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.ORCID 0000-0001-5622-5127
Auke van der WoudeEnvironmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6286-2621
Liang FengSchool of GeoSciences and National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Fei JiangInternational Institute for Earth System Science Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1744-7565
Paul I PalmerSchool of GeoSciences and National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1487-0969
Ingrid T LuijkxEnvironmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3990-6737
Bhely Angoboy IlondeaInstitut National pour l'Études et la Recherche Agronomiques, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.ORCID 0000-0001-9333-8964
Alfred NgomandaCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CENAREST), Libreville, Gabon.ORCID 0000-0003-2294-905X
Benjamin ToirambeService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Yu FengDepartment of Water and Climate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6433-5035
Wannes HubauDepartment of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3795-4986

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

African tropical moist forests are critical regulators of global carbon cycling, yet their contributions to national carbon budgets remain poorly constrained, impairing effective policy design. Here, we unravel carbon removals and emissions for 18 African tropical countries using multiple approaches over a data-rich period (2015-2019). Across countries, carbon removals (-286 ± 68.4 TgC yr

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PMID42890593
PMCPMC13672087

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