High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests – Nature

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

Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Philip J. Platts, Rob Marchant & Andrew Marshall

Department of International Environmental and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Aida Cuni-Sanchez

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

Martin J. P. Sullivan

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Martin J. P. Sullivan, Simon L. Lewis, Serge K. Begne, Amy C. Bennett, Martin Gilpin, Jon Lovett & Oliver L. Phillips

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York, York, UK

Philip J. Platts

Climate Change Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland

Philip J. Platts

Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Simon L. Lewis

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

Gérard Imani & Christian Amani

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

Wannes Hubau, Hans Beeckman & John T. Mukendi

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

Wannes Hubau

University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria

Iveren Abiem

Nigerian Montane Forest Project, Yelwa Village, Nigeria

Iveren Abiem & Hazel Chapman

Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Hari Adhikari, Janne Heiskanen & Petri Pellikka

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

Tomas Albrecht

Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Tomas Albrecht

Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science, Třeboň, Czech Republic

Jan Altman & Jiri Dolezal

College of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abreham B. Aneseyee & Teshome Soromessa

Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia

Abreham B. Aneseyee

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Valerio Avitabile

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK

Lindsay Banin

Université du Cinquantenaire Lwiro, Département de sciences de l’environnement, Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rodrigue Batumike

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

Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx & Joseph Okello

Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Serge K. Begne, Vincent Droissart, Marie-Noel Kamdem, Murielle Simo-Droissart & Bonaventure Sonké

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

Robert Bitariho

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

Jan Bogaert

Institute for Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany

Achim Bräuning & Ulrike Hiltner

Département de Eaux et Forêts, Institut Supérieur d’Agroforesterie et de Gestion de l’Environnement de Kahuzi-Biega (ISAGE-KB), Kalehe, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Franklin Bulonvu

UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK

Neil D. Burgess

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

Kim Calders & Hans Verbeeck

Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

Colin Chapman

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

Colin Chapman

Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Colin Chapman

International Centre of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation, Dali University, Dali, China

Colin Chapman

University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand

Hazel Chapman

Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

James Comiskey

University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Thales de Haulleville

World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

Mathieu Decuyper

Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Mathieu Decuyper & Martin Herold

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

Ben DeVries

Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Jiri Dolezal

AMAP Lab, Université de Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Vincent Droissart

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

Corneille Ewango & Janvier Lisingo

College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Senbeta Feyera

Dendrochronology Laboratory, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

Aster Gebrekirstos

Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA

Roy Gereau

Department of Biology, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi

Dismas Hakizimana

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

Jefferson Hall & David Kenfack

Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China

Alan Hamilton

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Olivier Hardy

Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA

Terese Hart

Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Janne Heiskanen

Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Andreas Hemp

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

Martin Herold

Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

Ulrike Hiltner

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

David Horak & Ondrej Sedlacek

International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Musanze, Rwanda

Charles Kayijamahe & Eustrate Uzabaho

Department of Natural Resources, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya

Mwangi J. Kinyanjui

Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Julia Klein

Eco2librium LLC, Boise, ID, USA

Mark Lung

Department of Ecology, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jean-Remy Makana

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

Yadvinder Malhi

Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Andrew Marshall & Alain S. K. Ngute

Flamingo Land Ltd, Malton, UK

Andrew Marshall

College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania

Emanuel H. Martin

School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Edward T. A. Mitchard & Charlotte Wheeler

Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

Alexandra Morel

Independent Botanist, Harare, Zimbabwe

Tom Muller

Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville, South Africa

Felix Nchu

Biology Department, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

Brigitte Nyirambangutse & Etienne Zibera

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Brigitte Nyirambangutse & Göran Wallin

Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda

Joseph Okello

National Agricultural Research Organisation, Mbarara Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Mbarara, Uganda

Joseph Okello

School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Kelvin S.-H. Peh

Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Kelvin S.-H. Peh

State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Petri Pellikka

Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat, BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK

Andrew Plumptre

School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

Lan Qie

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

Francesco Rovero

Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy

Francesco Rovero

Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Mundemba, Cameroon

Moses N. Sainge

Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Christine B. Schmitt

Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Christine B. Schmitt

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

Alain S. K. Ngute

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

Douglas Sheil

Water and Land Resources Center, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Demisse Sheleme

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Biodiversity Conservation and Landscape Management Program, Simien Mountains National Park, Debark, Ethiopia

Tibebu Y. Simegn

Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Terry Sunderland

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia

Terry Sunderland

Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Miroslav Svoboda

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

Hermann Taedoumg

Bioversity International, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Hermann Taedoumg

UK Research and Innovation, London, UK

James Taplin

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

David Taylor

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

Sean C. Thomas

Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, East Dean, UK

Jonathan Timberlake

Forestry Development Authority of the Government of Liberia (FDA), Monrovia, Liberia

Darlington Tuagben

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

Peter Umunay

Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

Jason Vleminckx

School of Natural Sciences, University of Bangor, Bangor, UK

Simon Willcock

Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

Simon Willcock

University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia

John T. Woods