Data and Code: The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest

This repository contains the code and data for the paper 'The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest'. Bousfield, C.G., Edwards, D.P. The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02721-8 The analysis for this paper was done using a mixture of Google Earth Engine (GEE) and RStudio (4.4). The raster files for the age of regenerating tropical moist forest are supplied individually for each of the three tropical regions (Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific) at 30m resolution, and represent the age of regenerating tropical moist forest (as per the JRC TMF) in each cell in the year 2023. The code to produce these datasets is available in GEE at: https://code.earthengine.google.com/aed2cb675ead0dc816e849f62f2fff8b The code to undertake random forest modelling in RStudio to identify predictors of regenerating forest age is available in this repository as: "Bousfield & Edwards, 2024, RF Modelling.R' Contact: Chris Bousfield - [e-mail]