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Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

2015; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 1; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/sciadv.1500936

ISSN

2375-2548

Autores

Hans ter Steege, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Timothy J. Killeen, Susan G. Laurance, Carlos A. Peres, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina V. Castilho, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Luiz de Souza Coêlho, William E. Magnusson, Oliver L. Phillips, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, Jean‐François Molino, Daniel Sabatier, Florian Wittmann, Dairon Cárdenas López, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Percy Núñez Vargas, Ângelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Juan Carlos Montero, Ted R. Feldpausch, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya, Charles E. Zartman, B. Mostacedo, Rodolfo Vásquez, Rafael L. Assis, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Susan G. Laurance, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Flávia R. C. Costa, Natália Targhetta, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Roel Brienen, Hernán Castellanos, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Hugo F. Mogollón, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Gerardo A. Aymard C., James A. Comiskey, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alberto Vincentini, Thaíse Emilio, Carolina Levis, Juliana Schietti, Priscila Souza, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Leandro Valle Ferreira, David Neill, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Rogério Gribel, Bruno Garcia Luize, Marcelo Petrati Pansonato, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Paul V. A. Fine, Marisol Toledo, Christopher Baraloto, Carlos Cerón, Julien Engel, Terry W. Henkel, E. Jiménez, Paul Maas, María Cristina Peñuela Mora, Pascal Pétronelli, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas‐Caesar, Timothy R. Baker, Doug Daly, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Naara Ferreira da Silva, A C., Peter M. Jørgensen, Jochen Schöngart, Miles R. Silman, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Anthony Di Fiore, Juan Fernando Phillips, Tinde van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, Edelcílio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Therany Gonzales, Jean‐Louis Guillaumet, Bruce Hoffman, Yadvinder Malhi, Íres Paula de Andrade Miranda, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschell, José Natalino Macedo Silva, César I. A. Vela, Vincent Antoine Vos, Eglée L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Ángela Cano, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramírez‐Angulo, José Ferreira Ramos, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña Medina, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova, Corine Vriesendorp, Ophelia Wang, Kenneth R. Young, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Natalia de Castro, William Farfan‐Ríos, Cid Ferreira, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Karina García‐Cabrera, Lionel Hernández, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, William Milliken, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra,

Tópico(s)

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Resumo

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict that most of the world's >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century.

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