Africa is forecasted to experience large and rapid climate change and population growth
during the twenty-first century, which threatens the world's second largest rainforest …

Determining where species diversify (cradles) and persist (museums) over evolutionary time
is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity and for conservation …

Tropical rainforests harbor exceptionally high biodiversity and store large amounts of carbon
in vegetation biomass. However, regional variation in plant species richness and vegetation …

The idea that tropical forest and savanna are alternative states is crucial to how we manage
these biomes and predict their future under global change. Large-scale empirical evidence …

Aim To delineate bioregions in tropical Africa and determine whether different plant growth
forms (trees, terrestrial herbs, lianas and shrubs) display the same pattern of regionalization …

Differences in species diversity over continental scales represent imprints of evolutionary,
ecological, and biogeographic events. Here, we investigate whether the higher tree species …

One of the foundational premises of ecology is that climate determines ecosystems. This has
been challenged by alternative ecosystem state models, which illustrate that internal …

Abstract Tropical forests in Central Africa host unique biodiversity threatened by human
degradation of habitats and defaunation. Forests allocated to conservation, production and …

Abstract In Central Africa, local populations are deeply dependent on tropical forests, which
provide numerous ecosystem services (ES). For the first time in Central Africa, we assessed …

Accurate height-diameter allometry is crucial for the estimation of forest biomass and carbon
stocks. Tree height measurements over a large range of diameters and species are urgently …