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This paper is a product of the PARTNERS Research Coordination Network grant #DEB1313788 from the USA. NSF Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program.

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  1. Department of Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

    Thomas K. Rudel

  2. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Place Pasteur 3, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

    Patrick Meyfroidt

  3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Robin Chazdon

  4. Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Frans Bongers

  5. James Cook University, 14-88 MacGregor Rd, Sir Robert Norman Building, Smithfield, QLD, Australia

    Sean Sloan

  6. Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Edificio Las Cupulas, Tucuman, Argentina

    H. Ricardo Grau

  7. Academic Research, Center for Sustainable Business, Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West Fourth Street, New York, NY, 10012, USA

    Tracy Van Holt

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The authors of this work have been collaborating as part of a research coordination network for the past 5 years on issues of forest regeneration in the tropics. TKR, the senior author on this manuscript, has done extensive research on this issue in Ecuador. RC has done extensive research on forest regeneration in Costa Rica. PM has worked on this issue in Russia, Vietnam, and most recently in Mozambique. FB has worked most extensively in recent years in Ethiopia. SS has done his most intensive field research in Panama. TH has examined the expansion of forest plantations in Chile. In sum, the authors of this paper have broad experience with issues of landscape change discussed in the article.

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Rudel, T.K., Meyfroidt, P., Chazdon, R. et al. Response to “Withering the coloniality of the forest transition?”. Ambio 50, 1765–1766 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01567-1

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