Chadrack Kafuti^1,2, Mélissa Rousseau³, Bhély Angoboy Ilondea⁴, Tom De Mil^1,5, Nils Bourland⁶, Joris Van Acker¹, Adeline Fayolle⁷, Hans Beeckman⁸ and Jan van den Bulcke⁹, (1)Ghent University, Department of Environment, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo, (3)Africamuseum, Tervuren, Belgium, (4)Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques, Kinshasa, Congo, (5)University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Tucson, United States, (6)Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, (7)Gembloux AgroBioTech, Gembloux, Belgium, (8)The Royal Museum for Central Africa, Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium, Brussels, Belgium, (9)Ghent University, Department of Environment, Gent, Belgium