Kelvin S.-H. Peh is an associate professor of conservation science in the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.

Richard T. Corlett is an Emeritus professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China, and an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. He was previously a professor at the National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong, China.

Yves Bergeron is an Emeritus professor of forest ecology and management at Université du Québec en Abitibi- Témiscamingue and Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.