Old growth Afrotropical forests critical for maintaining forest carbon,Global Ecology and Biogeography

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Old growth Afrotropical forests critical for maintaining forest carbon
Global Ecology and Biogeography ( IF 6.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 , DOI: 10.1111/geb.13150
John R. Poulsen _{1,

2} , Vincent P. Medjibe _{1,

2} , Lee J. T. White _{2,

3,

4} , Zewei Miao ₁ , Ludovic Banak‐Ngok ₃ , Chris Beirne ₁ , Connie J. Clark _{1,

2} , Aida Cuni‐Sanchez ₅ , Mathias Disney _{5,

6} , Jean‐Louis Doucet ₇ , Michelle E. Lee _{1,

2} , Simon L. Lewis _{5,

8} , Edward Mitchard ₉ , Chase L. Nuñez _{1,

10} , Jan Reitsma ₁₁ , Sassan Saatchi _{12,

13} , Charles T. Scott ₁₄

Affiliation

Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Durham North Carolina USA
Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux Libreville Gabon
Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale Libreville Gabon
African Forest Ecology Group School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling UK
Department of Geography University College London London UK
NERC National Centre for Earth Observation University of Leicester Leicester UK
TERRA Teaching and Research Centre Forest is Life Gembloux Agro‐Bio TechUniversité de Liège Gembloux Belgium
School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds UK
School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Leipzig Germany
Bureau Waardenburg Culemborg the Netherlands
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena California USA
Institute of Environment and Sustainability University of California Los Angeles California USA
US Forest ServiceSilvaCarbon Program West Chester Pennsylvania USA

Large trees [≥ 70 cm diameter at breast height (DBH)] contribute disproportionately to aboveground carbon stock (AGC) across the tropics but may be vulnerable to changing climate and human activities. Here we determine the distribution, drivers and threats to large trees and high carbon forest.

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