Hannah Stouter¹, Elsa Ordway², Douglas C Morton³, Shane Coffield⁴, Paulo M Brando⁵, Isabella Zouh⁶, Landing Mané⁷, Patrick Forghab⁶, Denis Sonwa⁸ and Florence Palla⁹, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (5)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, (6)Observatoire National sur les Changements Climatiques, Yaounde, Cameroon, (7)OSFAC, Kinshasa, Congo, (8)World Resources Institute, Yaounde, Cameroon, (9)Central African Forest Observatory, Yaounde, Cameroon