Aim To evaluate how elephant activity and anthropogenic disturbances (logging, secondary forest conversion, and proximity to villages) influence aboveground carbon (AGC) stocks in tropical forests and how their effects vary across tree size classes. Location Gabon. Time Period 2013–2023. Major Taxa Studied Gymnosperms and angiosperms. Methods Using 260 one‐hectare forest plots across Gabon, we employed Bayesian modelling to qu...

Aim The mosaic of savannas that persists in the forest‐dominant Congo Basin is thought to be palaeoclimatic relics, but past biogeographical processes that have formed and maintained these systems are poorly understood. Here, we explored the post‐Pleistocene biogeography of Gabon's savannas using termites as biological indicators to understand historical and mechanistic factors influencing present‐day termite communities in th...

Terrestrial carbon stock mapping is important for the successful implementation of climate change mitigation policies. Its accuracy depends on the availability of reliable allometric models to infer oven‐dry aboveground biomass of trees from census data. The degree of uncertainty associated with previously published pantropical aboveground biomass allometries is large. We analyzed a global database of directly harvested trees...