High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests.


Journal

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

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
08 2021
Historique:
received: 20 12 2020
accepted: 14 06 2021
entrez: 26 8 2021
pubmed: 27 8 2021
medline: 12 2 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Tropical forests store 40-50 per cent of terrestrial vegetation carbon

Identifiants

pubmed: 34433947
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03728-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-021-03728-4
doi:

Substances chimiques

Carbon 7440-44-0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

536-542

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Aida Cuni-Sanchez (A)

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK. a.cuni-sanchez@york.ac.uk.
Department of International Environmental and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway. a.cuni-sanchez@york.ac.uk.

Martin J P Sullivan (MJP)

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

Philip J Platts (PJ)

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York, York, UK.
Climate Change Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Simon L Lewis (SL)

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

Rob Marchant (R)

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

Gérard Imani (G)

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

Wannes Hubau (W)

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

Iveren Abiem (I)

University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria.
Nigerian Montane Forest Project, Yelwa Village, Nigeria.

Hari Adhikari (H)

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

Tomas Albrecht (T)

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.

Jan Altman (J)

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

Christian Amani (C)

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

Abreham B Aneseyee (AB)

College of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia.

Valerio Avitabile (V)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.

Lindsay Banin (L)

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK.

Rodrigue Batumike (R)

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

Marijn Bauters (M)

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

Hans Beeckman (H)

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

Serge K Begne (SK)

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Amy C Bennett (AC)

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

Robert Bitariho (R)

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

Achim Bräuning (A)

Institute for Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Franklin Bulonvu (F)

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.

Neil D Burgess (ND)

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

Kim Calders (K)

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

Colin Chapman (C)

Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
International Centre of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation, Dali University, Dali, China.

Hazel Chapman (H)

Nigerian Montane Forest Project, Yelwa Village, Nigeria.
University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand.

James Comiskey (J)

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

Thales de Haulleville (T)

University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Mathieu Decuyper (M)

World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya.
Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Ben DeVries (B)

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

Jiri Dolezal (J)

Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science, Třeboň, Czech Republic.
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.

Vincent Droissart (V)

Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers' Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
AMAP Lab, Université de Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.

Corneille Ewango (C)

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

Senbeta Feyera (S)

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

Aster Gebrekirstos (A)

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

Roy Gereau (R)

Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA.

Martin Gilpin (M)

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

Dismas Hakizimana (D)

Department of Biology, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi.

Jefferson Hall (J)

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

Alan Hamilton (A)

Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China.

Olivier Hardy (O)

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Terese Hart (T)

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

Janne Heiskanen (J)

Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Andreas Hemp (A)

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

Martin Herold (M)

Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Helmholtz Center Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Potsdam, Germany.

Ulrike Hiltner (U)

Institute for Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany.

David Horak (D)

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

Marie-Noel Kamdem (MN)

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

Charles Kayijamahe (C)

International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Musanze, Rwanda.

David Kenfack (D)

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

Mwangi J Kinyanjui (MJ)

Department of Natural Resources, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya.

Julia Klein (J)

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

Janvier Lisingo (J)

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

Jon Lovett (J)

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

Mark Lung (M)

Eco2librium LLC, Boise, ID, USA.

Jean-Remy Makana (JR)

Department of Ecology, 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.

Andrew Marshall (A)

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Flamingo Land Ltd, Malton, UK.

Emanuel H Martin (EH)

College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania.

Edward T A Mitchard (ETA)

School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Alexandra Morel (A)

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

John T Mukendi (JT)

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

Tom Muller (T)

Independent Botanist, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Felix Nchu (F)

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

Brigitte Nyirambangutse (B)

Biology Department, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Joseph Okello (J)

Isotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda.
National Agricultural Research Organisation, Mbarara Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Mbarara, Uganda.

Kelvin S-H Peh (KS)

School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Petri Pellikka (P)

Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

Oliver L Phillips (OL)

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

Andrew Plumptre (A)

Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat, BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.

Lan Qie (L)

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

Francesco Rovero (F)

Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy.

Moses N Sainge (MN)

Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Mundemba, Cameroon.

Christine B Schmitt (CB)

Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Ondrej Sedlacek (O)

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

Alain S K Ngute (ASK)

Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Applied Biology and Ecology Research Unit, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon.

Douglas Sheil (D)

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

Demisse Sheleme (D)

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

Tibebu Y Simegn (TY)

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

Murielle Simo-Droissart (M)

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

Bonaventure Sonké (B)

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

Teshome Soromessa (T)

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

Terry Sunderland (T)

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

Miroslav Svoboda (M)

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

Hermann Taedoumg (H)

Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Bioversity International, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

James Taplin (J)

UK Research and Innovation, London, UK.

David Taylor (D)

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

Sean C Thomas (SC)

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

Jonathan Timberlake (J)

Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, East Dean, UK.

Darlington Tuagben (D)

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

Peter Umunay (P)

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

Eustrate Uzabaho (E)

International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Musanze, Rwanda.

Hans Verbeeck (H)

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

Jason Vleminckx (J)

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

Göran Wallin (G)

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

Charlotte Wheeler (C)

School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Simon Willcock (S)

School of Natural Sciences, University of Bangor, Bangor, UK.
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK.

John T Woods (JT)

University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia.

Etienne Zibera (E)

Biology Department, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.

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