Fraud and misrepresentation in retail forest products exceeds U.S. forensic wood science capacity

• Alex C. Wiedenhoeft ,

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

  * E-mail: acwieden@wisc.edu

  Affiliations Center for Wood Anatomy Research, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, Ciências Biológicas (Botânica), Universidade Estadual Paulista–Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7053-8565

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• John Simeone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Simeone Consulting, LLC, Anchorage, AK, United States of America, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Amy Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Meaghan Parker-Forney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Richard Soares,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Wood Anatomy Research, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Akiva Fishman

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, United States of America

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