About the Authors

Razak Kiribou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

krazakou200248@gmail.com (RK); heinicke@pik-potsdam.de (SH)

Affiliation African Centre of Excellence for Climate Smart Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation, Haramaya University, Haramaya, Ethiopia

Paul Tehoda

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Built and Natural Environment, Department of Environmental Management and Technology, Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, Ghana

Onyekachi Chukwu

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Forestry and Wildlife, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

Godfred Bempah

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

Hjalmar S. Kühl

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Senckenberg Museum Für Naturkunde Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany, International Institute Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden, Zittau, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Julie Ferreira

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculté des Sciences de la Vie, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Tenekwetche Sop

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Senckenberg Museum Für Naturkunde Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

Joana Carvalho

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Built and Natural Environment, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Matthias Mengel

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

Lars Kulik

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Senckenberg Museum Für Naturkunde Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

Jean Pierre Samedi Mucyo

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Musanze, Rwanda

Yntze van der Hoek

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Musanze, Rwanda

Stefanie Heinicke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

krazakou200248@gmail.com (RK); heinicke@pik-potsdam.de (SH)

Affiliation Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.