Central Africa's mesic savannas should be conserved, not afforested

Affiliations

• ¹ Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ² AMAP (Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
• ³ Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁵ Herbário do Lubango, ISCED-Huíla, Lubango, Angola.
• ⁶ Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, Lubango, Angola.
• ⁷ Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolucao e Alteracoes Ambientais, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁸ Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• ¹⁰ Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• ¹¹ Center for African Ecology, School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.