About the Authors

Chelton Desarmes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cdesarmes@spf2b.com, cdesarmes@frm-france.com (CD); fhirsch@frm-france.com (FH)

Affiliations Société des Plantations Forestières Batéké-Brazzaville (SPF2B), Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Forêts Ressources Management (FRM), Montpellier, Hérault, France

Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut Supérieur des Sciences Géographiques, Environnementales et de l’Aménagement (ISSGEA), Université DENIS SASSOU-N’GUESSO, Kintélé, Pool, Republic of the Congo, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Laboratoire de Biodiversité, Gestion des Ecosystèmes et de l’Environnement (LBGE), Université Marien NGOUABI, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Flore Hirsch

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

cdesarmes@spf2b.com, cdesarmes@frm-france.com (CD); fhirsch@frm-france.com (FH)

Affiliation Forêts Ressources Management (FRM), Montpellier, Hérault, France

Paul Bertaux

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forêts Ressources Management (FRM), Montpellier, Hérault, France

Nicolas Bayol

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forêts Ressources Management (FRM), Montpellier, Hérault, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.