Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland
Iris Hordijk, Chelsea Chisholm, Daniel S. Maynard & Thomas W. Crowther
Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Iris Hordijk, Lourens Poorter, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Frans Bongers, Mathieu Decuyper & Douglas Sheil
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Jingjing Liang, Mo Zhou & Minjee Park
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
Peter B. Reich
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
Peter B. Reich
Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Sergio de-Miguel
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Spain
Sergio de-Miguel
Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
Javier G. P. Gamarra
Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Han Y. H. Chen
Manaaki Whenua–Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
Susan K. Wiser
Chair for Forest Growth and Yield Science, TUM School for Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Hans Pretzsch
Centre for Forest Research, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
Alain Paquette & Eric B. Searle
GIP ECOFOR, Paris, France
Nicolas Picard
CIRAD, Forêts et Sociétés, Montpellier, France
Bruno Hérault & Plinio Sist
Forêts et Sociétés, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Bruno Hérault
Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Jean-Francois Bastin
Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Giorgio Alberti
Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Giorgio Alberti
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Meinrad Abegg
UFR Biosciences, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Yves C. Adou Yao
Spatial Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano
Forestry School, Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica
Braulio V. Alvarado & Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi
Fundacion ConVida, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD, Medellin, Colombia
Esteban Alvarez-Davila
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Kuswata Kartawinata & Nigel C. A. Pitman
Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Luciana F. Alves
National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil
Iêda Amaral
Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Christian Ammer & Peter Schall
Division of Forest and Forest Resources, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Ås, Norway
Clara Antón-Fernández
Museo de Historia natural Noel kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Timothy Killeen & Alexander Parada-Gutierrez
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Valerio Avitabile
UNELLEZ-Guanare, Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT), Portuguesa, Venezuela
Gerardo A. Aymard C
Compensation International S. A. Ci Progress-GreenLife, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Gerardo A. Aymard C
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Timothy Baker, Roel Brienen, Simon Lewis & Oliver L. Phillips
Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Olaf Banki & Hans ter Steege
Centro Multidisciplinar, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
Jorcely Barroso
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
Meredith L. Bastian
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Meredith L. Bastian
United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany
Luca Birigazzi
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Philippe Birnbaum & Thomas Ibanez
Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Sciences and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
Robert Bitariho
Isotope Bioscience Laboratory – ISOFYS, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Pascal Boeckx
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Suceava, Romania
Olivier Bouriaud
Department of Forest Sciences, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ricardo G. Cesar & Vanessa Moreno
Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Freising, Germany
Susanne Brandl
Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Francis Q. Brearley
Spatial Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Eben N. Broadbent
Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle-, Wittenberg, Germany
Helge Bruelheide
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Helge Bruelheide
Biological Institute, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
Department of Spatial Regulation, GIS and Forest Policy, Institute of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia
Goran Cesljar
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Robin L. Chazdon & Cory Merow
Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QL, Australia
Robin L. Chazdon, John Herbohn, Andrew Robert Marshall & Sharif A. Mukul
IFER – Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, Jilove u Prahy, Czech Republic
Emil Cienciala
Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic
Emil Cienciala & Alexander C. Vibrans
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Connie J. Clark & John R. Poulsen
Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
David B. Clark
Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Gabriel Colletta
Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
David Coomes
Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program, Madre de Dios, Peru
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, Mexico
Jose J. Corral-Rivas
Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, USA
Philip Crim
Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Philip Crim & Jonathan Cumming
Biology Department, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Selvadurai Dayanandan
Natural Science Department, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Brazil
André L. de Gasper
Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Kourou, French Guiana
Géraldine Derroire & Aurélie Dourdain
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Ben DeVries
Institute of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia
Ilija Djordjevic & Radovan Nevenic
Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 25243, Průhonice, Czech Republic
Jiri Dolezal
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Jiri Dolezal
IRET, Herbier National du Gabon (CENAREST), Libreville, Gabon
Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Brian Enquist
The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Brian Enquist & Brian Maitner
Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Toowong, QL, Australia
Teresa Eyre, Victor Neldner & Michael Ngugi
Ecole de Foresterie et Ingénierie du Bois, Université Nationale d’Agriculture, Ketou, Benin
Adandé Belarmain Fandohan
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Tom M. Fayle
Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Tom M. Fayle
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Tom M. Fayle
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia, Belém, Pará, Brasil
Leandro V. Ferreira
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Ted R. Feldpausch
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Joensuu, Finland
Leena Finér
Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Markus Fischer
Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Christine Fletcher
Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
Lorenzo Frizzera & Damiano Gianelle
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Henry B. Glick & Peter Umunay
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
David Harris & Axel Dalberg Poulsen
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Andrew Hector
Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Andreas Hemp
Centre for Conservation Science, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK
Annika Hillers
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, Liberia Office, Monrovia, Liberia
Annika Hillers
School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Cang Hui
Theoretical Ecology Unit, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa
Cang Hui
Division of Forest Resources Information, Korea Forest Promotion Institute, Seoul, South Korea
Hyunkook Cho & Ilbin Jung
Department of Forest Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuo Imai & Jacek Oleksyn
Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, Poland
Andrzej M. Jagodzinski
Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Game Management and Forest Protection, Poznań, Poland
Andrzej M. Jagodzinski
Faculty of Biology, Białowieża Geobotanical Station, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, Poland
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vivian Johannsen & Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas
Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
Carlos A. Joly
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Tommaso Jucker
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi, Russian Federation
Viktor Karminov & Petr Ontikov
CAVElab-Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Elizabeth Kearsley & Hans Verbeeck
CTFS-ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
David Kenfack
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, USA
Deborah Kennard
UniSA STEM and Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Gunnar Keppel
Department of Botany, Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, MP, India
Mohammed Latif Khan
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Hyun Seok Kim & Minjee Park
Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Hyun Seok Kim
National Center for Agro Meteorology, Seoul, South Korea
Hyun Seok Kim
Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Hyun Seok Kim
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Kanehiro Kitayama
Institute for World Forestry, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Michael Köhl & Philip Mundhenk
Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Henn Korjus, Diana Laarmann & Mait Lang
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Florian Kraxner, Dmitry Schepaschenko & Anatoly Shvidenko
Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
Simon Lewis
Faculty of Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China
Huicui Lu
Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Natalia Lukina
School of Geography, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Yadvinder Malhi & Elena Tikhonova
UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, Kourou, France
Eric Marcon
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon & Ben Hur Marimon-Junior
Flamingo Land Ltd, Kirby Misperton, UK
Andrew Robert Marshall
Department of Environment & Geography, University of York, York, UK
Andrew Robert Marshall
Department of Wildlife Management, College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania
Emanuel Martin
All-Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry, Pushkino, Russian Federation
Olga Martynenko
Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Jorge A. Meave
Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
Omar Melo-Cruz
Colegio de Profesionales Forestales de Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Casimiro Mendoza
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Department of Forest Management, Dendrometry and Forest Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Stanislaw Miscicki & Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Department of Environment and Development Studies, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sharif A. Mukul
Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades. Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, Mexico
Maria G. Nava-Miranda
Escuela Politécnica Superior de Ingeniería. Campus Terra. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain
Maria G. Nava-Miranda
Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
David Neill
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Pascal A. Niklaus & Bernhard Schmid
Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NC, USA
Yude Pan
V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, FRC KSC, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Elena Parfenova & Nadja Tchebakova
Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Marc Parren
Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Rio Gallegos, Argentina
Pablo L. Peri
School of Social Sciences (Urban Studies), Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
Sebastian Pfautsch
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Maria Teresa Piedade, Jochen Schöngart & Natalia Targhetta
Laboratório de Dendrologia e Silvicultura Tropical, Centro de Formação em Ciências Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Itabuna, Brazil
Daniel Piotto & Samir Rolim
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forest (DAGRI), University of Firenze, Florence, Italy
Martina Pollastrini & Federico Selvi
Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
Irina Polo
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo
Servicios Ecosistémicos y Cambio Climático (SECC), Fundación Con Vida & Corporación COL-TREE, Medellín, Colombia
Zorayda Restrepo-Correa
Centro Agricoltura, Alimenti, Ambiente, University of Trento, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
Mirco Rodeghiero
Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Anand Roopsind
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Francesco Rovero
Tropical Biodiversity, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy
Francesco Rovero
Info Flora, Geneva, Switzerland
Ervan Rutishauser
Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India
Purabi Saikia
Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile
Christian Salas-Eljatib
Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Christian Salas-Eljatib
Departamento de Silvicultura y Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Christian Salas-Eljatib
Faculty of Biology, Geobotany, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
Vladimír Seben
Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, Inra, Silva, Nancy, France
Josep M. Serra-Diaz
Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) & Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade, Denmark
Josep M. Serra-Diaz & Jens-Christian Svenning
Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
Douglas Sheil
Departamento de Biología, Universidad de la Serena, La Serena, Chile
Javier Silva-Espejo
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Marcos Silveira
Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, French Guiana
James Singh
Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam
Ferry Slik
Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Bonaventure Sonké
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Alexandre F. Souza
Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hans ter Steege
Department of Geomatics, Forest Research Institute, Raszyn, Poland
Krzysztof Stereńczak
Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Jens-Christian Svenning
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Miroslav Svoboda
Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA
Ben Swanepoel
Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development (IIC), Georgetown, Guyana
Raquel Thomas
Botanical Garden of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural State Forest Engineering University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Vladimir Usoltsev
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Renato Valencia
LINCGlobal, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Fernando Valladares
Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Fons van der Plas
Silviculture Research Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tran Van Do
Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Michael E. Van Nuland
Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences, CITAB, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal
Helder Viana
Department of Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural High School of Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal and Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences, CITAB, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Helder Viana
Department of Forest Engineering Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau-Santa Catarina, Brazil
Alexander C. Vibrans
Environmental Studies and Research Center, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
Simone Vieira
Department of Forest and Wood Science, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Klaus von Gadow
Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources, Ministry of Education, School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, China
Hua-Feng Wang & Zhi-Xin Zhu
Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
James Watson
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Gijsbert D. A. Werner
Department of Wetland Ecology, Institute for Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Florian Wittmann
Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS), Paramaribo, Suriname
Verginia Wortel
Tropenbos International, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Roderick Zagt
Polish State Forests, Coordination Center for Environmental Projects, Warsaw, Poland
Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki
Research Center of Forest Management Engineering of State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Chunyu Zhang & Xiuhai Zhao
INP-HB, UMRI Sciences Agronomiques et Procédés de Transformation, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
Irie Casimir Zo-Bi
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
Daniel S. Maynard
Iris Hordijk, Tom W. Crowther and Daniel S. Maynard conceived of the study. Iris Hordijk extracted and analysed the data, and drafted the manuscript with assistance from Lourens Poorter, Daniel S. Maynard and Tom W. Crowther. Jingjing Liang, Peter B. Reich, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Han Y. H. Chen, Mo Zhou, Susan K. Wiser, Hans Pretzsch, Alain Paquette, Nicolas Picard, Bruno Hérault, Jean-Francois Bastin, Giorgio Alberti, Meinrad Abegg, Yves C. Adou Yao, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio V. Alvarado, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Iêda Amaral, Christian Ammer, Clara Antón-Fernández, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Timothy Baker, Olaf Banki, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Francis Q. Brearley, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Robin L. Chazdon, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Gabriel Colletta, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral-Rivas, Philip Crim, Jonathan Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, André L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Géraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Aurélie Dourdain, Jiri Dolezal, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Brian Enquist, Teresa Eyre, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Leandro V. Ferreira, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leena Finér, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David Harris, Andrew Hector, Andreas Hemp, John Herbohn, Annika Hillers, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Hyunkook Cho, Thomas Ibanez, Ilbin Jung, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Johannsen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Köhl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon Lewis, Huicui Lu, Natalia Lukina, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew Robert Marshall, Emanuel Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Stanislaw Miscicki, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria G. Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Michael Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena Parfenova, Minjee Park, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Maria Teresa Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Martina Pollastrini, Irina Polo, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schöngart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimír Seben, Federico Selvi, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Shvidenko, Javier Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Alexandre F. Souza, Hans ter Steege, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Raquel Thomas, Elena Tikhonova, Peter Umunay, Vladimir Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van der Plas, Tran Van Do, Michael E. Van Nuland, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Roderick Zagt, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irie Casimir Zo-Bi provided data for the analysis. All authors assisted with revisions and gave final approval for publication.