Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses

(2020) Steven Janssens et al.   Biodiversity Data Journal

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

(2020) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   SCIENCE

Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics

(2020) Nadja Rüger et al.   SCIENCE

Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

(2020) Nate G. McDowell et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

(2020) Pierre Ploton et al.   Nature Communications

Climate change would lead to a sharp acceleration of Central African forests dynamics by the end of the century

(2019) Florian Claeys et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought

(2019) Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

(2019) T. Stévart et al.   Science Advances

Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa

(2018) Vincent Droissart et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

The light-deficient climates of Western Central African evergreen forests

(2018) Nathalie Philippon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history

(2017) Julie Morin-Rivat et al.   eLife

Environmental Issues in Central Africa

(2016) Katharine Abernethy et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Remotely sensed temperature and precipitation data improve species distribution modelling in the tropics

(2016) V. Deblauwe et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The determinants of tropical forest deciduousness: disentangling the effects of rainfall and geology in central Africa

(2016) Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Controlled comparison of species- and community-level models across novel climates and communities

(2016) Kaitlin C. Maguire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions

(2016) Dauby Gilles et al.   PhytoKeys

Intrinsic dynamics of the regional community

(2015) Robert E. Ricklefs   ECOLOGY LETTERS

THEME: THEmatic model exploration through multiple co-structure maximization

(2015) X. Bry et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMOMETRICS

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

AFRICLIM: high-resolution climate projections for ecological applications in Africa

(2014) Philip J. Platts et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mapping Change in Human Pressure Globally on Land and within Protected Areas

(2014) JONAS GELDMANN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

(2014) Edward T. A. Mitchard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tropical tree assembly depends on the interactions between successional and soil filtering processes

(2014) Maxime Réjou-Méchain et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns of tree species composition across tropical African forests

(2014) Adeline Fayolle et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

(2014) Liming Zhou et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

(2013) T. Jonathan Davies et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Supervised component generalized linear regression using a PLS-extension of the Fisher scoring algorithm

(2013) X. Bry et al.   JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

African rainforests: past, present and future

(2013) Y. Malhi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Implications of global warming for the climate of African rainforests

(2013) R. James et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tropical forest recovery from logging: a 24 year silvicultural experiment from Central Africa

(2013) S. Gourlet-Fleury et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

(2013) Wendy B. Foden et al.   PLoS One

Climate change hotspots in the CMIP5 global climate model ensemble

(2012) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Population Distribution, Settlement Patterns and Accessibility across Africa in 2010

(2012) Catherine Linard et al.   PLoS One

Geological Substrates Shape Tree Species and Trait Distributions in African Moist Forests

(2012) Adeline Fayolle et al.   PLoS One

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

(2012) Francis E. Putz et al.   Conservation Letters

Predicting alpha diversity of African rain forests: models based on climate and satellite-derived data do not perform better than a purely spatial model

(2011) Ingrid Parmentier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental filtering of dense-wooded species controls above-ground biomass stored in African moist forests

(2011) Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Deriving Plant Functional Types for Amazonian forests for use in vegetation dynamics models

(2011) Nikolaos M. Fyllas et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Soils on exposed Sunda Shelf shaped biogeographic patterns in the equatorial forests of Southeast Asia

(2011) J. W. F. Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detecting large-scale diversity patterns in tropical trees: Can we trust commercial forest inventories?

(2010) Maxime Réjou-Méchain et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Phylogenetic diversity measures based on Hill numbers

(2010) A. Chao et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Habitat vulnerability in conservation planning-when it matters and how much

(2010) Piero Visconti et al.   Conservation Letters

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Logging Concessions Can Extend the Conservation Estate for Central African Tropical Forests

(2009) C.J. CLARK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biotic attrition from tropical forests correcting for truncated temperature niches

(2009) KENNETH J. FEELEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The assembly of forest communities according to maximum species height along resource and disturbance gradients

(2009) Brandon S. Schamp et al.   OIKOS

Partial least squares regression as an alternative to current regression methods used in ecology

(2009) Luis M. Carrascal et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm communities during tropical forest succession

(2009) S. G. Letcher   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Extinction

(2008) Andy Purvis   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Regional variation in tropical forest tree species composition in the Central African Republic: an assessment based on inventories by forest companies

(2008) Maxime Réjou-Méchain et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Rescaling the Human Footprint: A tool for conservation planning at an ecoregional scale

(2008) Gillian Woolmer et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Opening the climate envelope reveals no macroscale associations with climate in European birds

(2008) C. M. Beale et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE