Elsa Ordway¹, Nicolas Barbier², Sumalika Biswas³, Serge Assola⁴, Ruksan Bose⁵, Vincent Deblauwe⁶, Fanny Djomkam⁷, Benis Egoh⁸, Germain Chuissi-Kameni⁴, Antonio Ferraz⁹, Stephane Momo⁴, Bastien Dehaudt¹⁰, Nicholas Russo¹¹, Morgan Dean¹², Sassan S Saatchi¹³, Bertrand Endezoumou¹⁴, Fabian Schneider¹⁵, Ernest Simpoh⁵, Thomas B Smith¹², Bonaventure Sonké¹⁶, Mody Lacour⁸, Hannah Stouter¹⁷, Pierre Ploton¹⁸, Gilbert Oum Ndjock¹⁴, Antoine Tekam¹⁶, Sarah R Worden¹², Epie Njume¹⁹ and Virginia Zaunbrecher¹², (1)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)IRD Institute for Research and Development, AMAP, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (3)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, United States, (4)Congo Basin Institute, Yaounde, Cameroon, (5)Congo Basin Institute/International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (6)University of California Los Angeles/Congo Basin Institute, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Congo Basin Institute/International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaounde, Cameroon, (8)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (9)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (10)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (11)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (13)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems/Earth Science, Pasadena, United States, (14)Ministry of Forests and Fauna, Yaounde, Cameroon, (15)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (16)University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (17)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (18)IRD Institute for Research and Development AMAP, Montpellier, France, (19)University of California Irvine, Dept. of Earth System Sciences, Irvine, United States