About the Authors

Md Nabiul Islam Khan

mkhan@ulb.ac.be; mnikhan@yahoo.com

Affiliations Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Département de Biologie des Organismes, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles–ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium, Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany, Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Renske Hijbeek

Affiliations Biodiversity and Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel–VUB, Brussels, Belgium, Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

Uta Berger

Affiliation Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany

Nico Koedam

Affiliation Biodiversity and Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel–VUB, Brussels, Belgium

Uwe Grueters

Affiliation Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany

S. M. Zahirul Islam

Affiliation Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Md Asadul Hasan

Affiliation Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

Affiliations Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Département de Biologie des Organismes, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles–ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium, Biodiversity and Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel–VUB, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FDG MNIK RH NK. Performed the experiments: FDG MNIK MAH SMZI UG. Analyzed the data: MNIK RH SMZI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FDG NK UB MAH SMZI. Wrote the paper: MNIK RH FDG NK UB SMZI UG.