Jürgen Homeier, Joseph J. O'Brien, Hellen Paredio Santana, Jean-Louis Devineau, Wendeson Castro, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Marcos Miranda Toledo, Grégoire Vincent, Bruno Hérault, Benjamin Brede, Martin Worbes, Raphaël Pélissier, Takeshi Toma, Aster Gebrekirstos, Vinicius Resende de Castro, Franziska Volland, Kaiyu Guan, Damien Bonal, Steven F. Oberbauer, Ervan Rutishauser, Davi Rodrigo Rossatto, Liana O. Anderson, Tomaz Longhi Santos, David M. J. S. Bowman, Marisol Toledo, Deborah A. Clark, Foster Brown, Michael S. Ross, Williamar Rodrigues Silva, Sintia Valerio Kohler, Carolina V. Castilho, Camille Couralet, Paulo Henrique da Silva Mauricio, Fidel A. Roig, Robert Gliniars, Clément Stahl, Michael D. Swaine, César Augusto Guimarães Finger, Danilo Boanerges Souza, Yadvinder Malhi, Márcia C. M. Marques, Flávia R. C. Costa, Brett P. Murphy, Giselda Durigan, Lip Khoon Kho, Rubens Koloski Chagas, Augusto C. Franco, João Lima Freitas Júnior, Milton Eugene Lieberman, Fabien Wagner, Achim Bräuning, E. N. Chidumayo, Lucy Rowland, Hooz Angela Mendivelso, Fernanda C. G. Cardoso, Fabrício Alvim Carvalho, James Grogan, Oliver Dünisch, Paulo Cesar Botosso, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Vivien Rossi, Lynda D. Prior, Timothy R. Baker, José Julio de Toledo, Eduardo Eijji Maeda, Susanne Spannl, Anthony D. Griffiths, Jérôme Chave, Diana Lieberman, José P. Lemos-Filho, Hans Beeckman, Franklin Galvão, Luciano de Souza Arruda, Juan Ignacio Valdez Hernández, Gabriel Sebastian Becker, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Marcos Silveira, Magda Lea Bolzan Zanon, Naoki Okada, Helmut Dalitz, Edilson Consuelo de Oliveira, Mario Tomazello Filho, Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro Graça, David M. Drew, José Luis López Ayala, Jennifer Koenig, Elisha Elifuraha, Vivian R. B. Maria, Mark Schulze, Diogo Selhorst, Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Marcio Fedele, Hector Maza Maza Chamba, Lawrence Mbwambo, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Maria Raquel Kanieski, Afonso Figueiredo Filho, Julia Krepkowski, J. Julio Camarero, Jan Verbesselt, Karina Melgaço, Jaçanan Eloisa de Freitas Milani, Ligia Ferreira Fedele, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (UMR ECOFOG), Université des Antilles (UA)-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AgroParisTech-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières [devient SILVA en 2018] (EEF), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL), School of Geography [Leeds], University of Leeds, Universität Hohenheim, Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren] (RMCA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), University of Tasmania [Hobart, Australia] (UTAS), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidade Federal do Parana [Curitiba] (UFPR), Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Biological Sciences Department, University of Zambia, University of Missouri [St. Louis], University of Missouri System, Universidade Federal de Vicosa (UFV), Prefeitura municipal RIo Branco, Patrimoines Locaux et Gouvernance (PALOC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Stellenbosch University, Meisterschule Ebern Schreinerhandwerk, Floresta Estadual Assis, Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI), Centro Universitário Estadual da Zona Oeste [Rio de Janeiro] (UEZO), Universidade Federal de Santa Maria = Federal University of Santa Maria [Santa Maria, RS, Brazil] (UFSM), Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB), World Agroforestry Center [CGIAR, Kenya] (ICRAF), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), Northern Territory Government, Mount Holyoke College, Illinois State University, Georg-August-University [Göttingen], Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina = Federal University of Santa Catarina [Florianópolis] (UFSC), Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Charles Darwin University, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), California State University [Monterey Bay] (CSUMB), Campus de Montecillo, Colegio de Postgraduados (CP), University of Helsinki, School of Geography and the Environment [Oxford] (SoGE), University of Oxford [Oxford], Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), USDA Agricultural Research Service [Maricopa, AZ] (USDA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Biological Sciences [Miami], Florida International University [Miami] (FIU), Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University [Kyoto], Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET), Department of Earth and Environment, Universidade Paulista [São Paulo] (UNIP), Forêts et Sociétés (UPR Forêts et Sociétés), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), School of Geosciences [Edinburgh], University of Edinburgh, CarboForExpert, Oregon State University (OSU), Ibama, Universidade Federal de Roraima, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Federal University of Amapà, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento [Brasil] (MAPA), Governo do Brasil-Governo do Brasil, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel René Moreno (UAGRM), Department of Forest Vegetation, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), University of Campinas [Campinas] (UNICAMP), Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), TreeD lab - Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), University of Tasmania (UTAS), Friedrich Alexander University [Erlangen-Nürnberg], Wageningen University and Research Centre [Wageningen] (WUR), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Colegio de Postgraduados, School of Geography and the Environment [Oxford], United States Department of Agriculture - USDA (USA), Florida International University (FIU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Forêts et Sociétés (Cirad-Es-UPR 105 Forêts et Sociétés), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, São José Dos Campos, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, UMR EEF 1137, University of Antwerp, University of Hohenheim, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), University of Tasmania, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wageningen University, Universidade Federal Do Acre, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPE-CSIC), Santa Cruz de la Sierra, CNRS and UniversitéPaul Sabatier, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Branco, UMR 208 Patrimoines Locaux et Gouvernance, University of Stellenbosch, Meisterschule Ebern für das Schreinerhandwerk, Floresta Estadual de Assis, Universidade Estadual Do Centro-Oeste, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Göttingen, Universidade Do Estado de Santa Catarina - UDESC, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), California State University Monterey Bay, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), University of Oxford, Universidad Nacional de Loja, USDA Forest Service, Florida International University, Kyoto University, Institut Français de Pondicherry, IRD, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales - CONICET, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), CIRAD, Oregon State University, Universidade Federal de Roraima - UFRR, Universidade Federal Do Amapá, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel René Moreno, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Georg-August-Universit, University of Exeter, FABIEN H. WAGNER, Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research - INPE, LUCIANO DE SOUZA ARRUDA, Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Branco, JEAN-LOUIS DEVINEAU, Département Hommes, Natures, Sociétés, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et UMR 208 Patrimoines Locaux et Gouvernance, DAVID M. DREW, Dept. Forest and Wood Science, University of Stellenbosch, OLIVER DÜNISCH, Meisterschule Ebern für das Schreinerhandwerk, GISELDA DURIGAN, Floresta Estadual de Assis, ELISHA ELIFURAHA, Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI), MARCIO FEDELE, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, LIGIA FERREIRA FEDELE, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, AFONSO FIGUEIREDO FILHO, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal – DEF, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, CÉSAR AUGUSTO GUIMARÃES FINGER, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Centro de Ciências Rurais, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, AUGUSTO CÉSAR FRANCO, Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Fisiologia Vegetal, Universidade de Brasília, JOÃO LIMA FREITAS JÚNIOR, Programa de Pós-Graduação Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Acre, FRANKLIN GALVÃO, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Federal do Paraná, ASTER GEBREKIRSTOS, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), ROBERT GLINIARS, Institute of Botany, University of Hohenheim, PAULO MAURÍCIO LIMA DE ALENCASTRO, Coordenação de Pesquisa em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, ANTHONY D. GRIFFITHS, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, JAMES GROGAN, Department of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, KAIYU GUAN, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, JÜRGEN HOMEIER, Department of Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, MARIA RAQUEL KANIESKI, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, LIP KHOON KHO, Tropical Peat Research Institute, Biological Research Division, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, JENNIFER KOENIG, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, JULIA KREPKOWSKI, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, JOSÉ PIRES LEMOS-FILHO, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, DIANA LIEBERMAN, Division of Science & Environmental Policy, California State University Monterey Bay, MILTON EUGENE LIEBERMAN, Division of Science & Environmental Policy, California State University Monterey Bay, CLAUDIO SERGIO LISI, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, TOMAZ LONGHI SANTOS, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Federal do Paraná, JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ AYALA, Programa Forestal, Colegio de Postgraduados, EDUARDO EIJJI MAEDA, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, YADVINDER MALHI, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, VIVIAN R.B. MARIA, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, MARCIA C. M. MARQUES, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, RENATO MARQUES, Departamento de Solos e Engenharia Agrícola, Universidade Federal do Paraná, HECTOR MAZA CHAMBA, Laboratoria de Dendrochronologia y Anatomia de Maderas Espinoza, LAWRENCE MBWAMBO, Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI), KARINA LIANA LISBOA MELGAÇO, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, HOOZ ANGELA MENDIVELSO, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPE-CSIC), BRETT P. MURPHY, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, JOSEPH J. O’BRIEN, Center for Forest Disturbance Science, USDA Forest Service, STEVEN F. OBERBAUER, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, NAOKI OKADA, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, RAPHAËL PÉLISSIER, Institut Français de Pondicherry, LYNDA D. PRIOR, School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, FIDEL ALEJANDRO ROIG, Tree Ring and Environmental History Laboratory, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales – CONICET, MICHAEL ROSS, Department of Earth and Environment, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, DAVI RODRIGO ROSSATTO, Departamento de Biologia Aplicada, FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, VIVIEN ROSSI, UR B&SEF (Biens et services des écosystèmes forestiers tropicaux), CIRAD, LUCY ROWLAND, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, ERVAN RUTISHAUSER, CarboForExpert, HELLEN SANTANA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, MARK SCHULZE, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon State University, DIOGO SELHORST, Ibama, WILLIAMAR RODRIGUES SILVA, PRONAT – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recurso Naturais, Universidade Federal de Roraima, MARCOS SILVEIRA, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Laboratóio de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, SUSANNE SPANNL, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, MICHAEL D. SWAINE, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, JOSÉ JULIO TOLEDO, Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Amapá, MARCOS MIRANDA TOLEDO, CPACP, MARISOL TOLEDO, Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal (IBIF), Universidad Autonoma Gabriel René Moreno, TAKESHI TOMA, Department of Forest Vegetation, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), MARIO TOMAZELLO FILHO, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, JUAN IGNACIO VALDEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Programa Forestal, Colegio de Postgraduados, JAN VERBESSELT, Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, SIMONE APARECIDA VIEIRA, Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais (NEPAM), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), GRÉGOIRE VINCENT, UMR AMAP (botAnique et bioinforMatique de l’Architecture des Plantes), IRD, CAROLINA VOLKMER DE CASTILHO, CNPS, FRANZISKA VOLLAND, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, MARTIN WORBES, Crop Production Systems in the Tropics, Georg-August-University, MAGDA LEA BOLZAN ZANON, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Centro de Educação Superior Norte, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, LUIZ E.O.C. ARAGÃO, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exetex., BRUNO HÉRAULT, CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, DAMIEN BONAL, INRA, CLÉMENT STAHL, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, LIANA O. ANDERSON, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, TIMOTHY R. BAKER, School of Geography, University of Leeds, GABRIEL SEBASTIAN BECKER, Institute of Botany, University of Hohenheim, HANS BEECKMAN, Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium, Royal Museum for Central Africa, DANILO BOANERGES SOUZA, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências de Florestas Tropicais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, PAULO CESAR BOTOSSO, CNPF, DAVID M. J. S. BOWMAN, School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, ACHIM BRÄUNING, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, BENJAMIN BREDE, Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, FOSTER IRVING BROWN, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, JESUS JULIO CAMARERO, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, PLÍNIO BARBOSA CAMARGO, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Laboratório de Ecologia Isotópica, Universidade de São Paulo, FERNANDA C.G. CARDOSO, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, FABRÍCIO ALVIM CARVALHO, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), WENDESON CASTRO, Programa de Pós-Graduação Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Acre, RUBENS KOLOSKI CHAGAS, Departamento de Ecologia do Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), JÉROME CHAVE, UMR 5174 Laboratoire Evolution et DiversitéBiologique, CNRS & UniversitéPaul Sabatier, Toulouse, EMMANUEL N. CHIDUMAYO, Biological Sciences Department, University of Zambia, DEBORAH A. CLARK, Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, FLAVIA REGINA CAPELLOTTO COSTA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, CAMILLE COURALET, Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium, Royal Museum for Central Africa, PAULO HENRIQUE DA SILVA, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Laboratóio de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, HELMUT DALITZ, Institute of Botany, University of Hohenheim, VINICIUS RESENDE DE CASTRO, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, JAÇANAN ELOISA DE FREITAS MILANI, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Federal do Paraná, EDILSON CONSUELO DE OLIVEIRA, Centro de Ciêcias Biológicas e da Natureza, Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Charles Darwin University [Australia], Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais = Federal University of Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte, Brazil] (UFMG), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR), and Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas (UNICAMP)