Abstract Tropical montane forests harbour exceptionally high biodiversity yet face severe threats from human activities. Assessing forest biodiversity over large areas is crucial yet extremely challenging. Remote sensing provides an efficient monitoring solution, but few studies have focused on Tanzania’s diverse, montane forests. We collected field data on tree species composition within 159 plots across...Read More

A B S T R A C T Lianas are common in tropical forests, where they influence forest dynamics, thus impacting the global carbon sink, with implications for climate change mitigation. Despite their increasing competitiveness with trees at the global scale, robust measurements of liana aboveground biomass (AGB) have been limited. Here we use data...Read More

Summary Land-use change for crop production is one of the key drivers of habitat loss and fragmentation and consequently biodiversity loss and change in tropical regions. This may impact biodiversity- regulated ecosystem services; birds are important to crop health regulating services (eg. seed dispersal, pest control) and disservices (e.g. seed predation, grain herbivory). However, know-...Read More