About the Authors

Emilio Vilanova

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Vilanova, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory J. Ettl

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

vilanova@uw.edu

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United of States America

Hirma Ramírez-Angulo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Armando Torres-Lezama

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Gerardo Aymard

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Universidad Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora (UNELLEZ), Portuguesa, Venezuela

Luis Gámez

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Cristabel Durán

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Forest Sciences. Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Lionel Hernández

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana (UNEG), Bolívar, Venezuela

Rafael Herrera

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela, Department of Geography and Regional Research–Geoecology, University of Vienna, Austria

Geertje van der Heijden

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Oliver L. Phillips

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Vilanova, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory J. Ettl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Gregory J. Ettl

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Vilanova, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory J. Ettl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United of States America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.