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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species
2015; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 112; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1073/pnas.1423147112
ISSN1091-6490
AutoresFerry Slik, Víctor Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Shin‐ichiro Aiba, Patricia Álvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Peter S. Ashton, Patricia Balvanera, Meredith L. Bastian, Peter J. Bellingham, Eduardo van den Berg, Luís Carlos Bernacci, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Lilian Blanc, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Brad Boyle, Matt Bradford, Francis Q. Brearley, Mireille Breuer‐Ndoundou Hockemba, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Darley C. Leal Matos, Miguel Santiago, Eduardo Luı́s Martins Catharino, Shauna‐Lee Chai, Yukai Chen, Robert K. Colwell, Robin L. Chazdon, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Deborah A. Clark, Heike Culmsee, Kipiro Damas, H. S. Dattaraja, Gilles Dauby, Priya Davidar, Saara J. DeWalt, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Álvaro Duque, Giselda Durigan, Karl A. O. Eichhorn, Pedro V. Eisenlohr, Eduardo Schmidt Eler, Corneille Ewango, Nina Farwig, Kenneth J. Feeley, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Richard Field, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira Filho, Christine Fletcher, Olle Forshed, Geraldo Antônio Daher Corrêa Franco, Gabriella Fredriksson, Thomas R. Gillespie, Jean‐François Gillet, Giriraj Amarnath, Daniel M. Griffith, James Grogan, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, David J. Harris, Rhett D. Harrison, Andy Hector, Jürgen Homeier, Nobuo Imai, Akira Itoh, Patrick A. Jansen, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Ben de Jong, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, Daniel L. Kelly, David Kenfack, Michael Kessler, Kanehiro Kitayama, Robert M. Kooyman, Eileen Larney, Yves Laumonier, Susan G. Laurance, Susan G. Laurance, Michael J. Lawes, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Susan G. Letcher, Jeremy Lindsell, Xinghui Lu, Mashhor Mansor, Antti Marjokorpi, Emanuel H. Martin, Henrik Meilby, Felipe P. L. Melo, Daniel J. Metcalfe, Vincent P. Medjibe, Jean Paul Metzger, Jérôme Millet, Dharmalingam Mohandass, Juan Carlos Montero, Márcio de Morisson Valeriano, Badru Mugerwa, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Reuben Nilus, Susana Ochoa‐Gaona, Onrizal Onrizal, Navendu Page, Pia Parolin, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Ekananda Paudel, Andrea Permana, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Lourens Poorter, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Jennifer S. Powers, P. Rama Chandra Prasad, Jean‐Philippe Puyravaud, Jean-Claude A. Razafimahaimodison, Jan Reitsma, João Roberto dos Santos, Wilson Roberto Spironello, Hugo Romero‐Saltos, Francesco Rovero, Andes Hamuraby Rozak, Kalle Ruokolainen, Ervan Rutishauser, Felipe Zamborlini Saiter, Philippe Saner, Bráulio A. Santos, Fernanda Santos, Swapan Kumar Sarker, Manichanh Satdichanh, Christine B. Schmitt, Jochen Schöngart, Mark Schulze, Márcio Seiji Suganuma, Douglas Sheil, Eduardo da Silva Pinheiro, Plínio Sist, Tariq Stévart, Raman Sukumar, I‐Fang Sun, Trey Sunderland, H. S. Suresh, Eizi Suzuki, Marcelo Tabarelli, Jangwei Tang, Natália Targhetta, Ida Theilade, Duncan W. Thomas, Peguy Tchouto, Johanna Hurtado, Renato Valencia, J.L.C.H. van Valkenburg, Tran Van Do, Rodolfo Vásquez, Hans Verbeeck, V. A. J. Adekunle, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Campbell O. Webb, Timothy J. S. Whitfeld, Serge A. Wich, John Williams, Florian Wittmann, Hannsjoerg Wöll, Xiaobo Yang, Constant Yves Adou Yao, Sandra Yap, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Rakan A. Zahawi, Rahmad Zakaria, Runguo Zang, Rafael L. Assis, Bruno Garcia Luize, Eduardo Martins Venticinque,
Tópico(s)Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
ResumoThe high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting of 657,630 trees belonging to 11,371 species, we use a fitted value of Fisher's alpha and an approximate pantropical stem total to estimate the minimum number of tropical forest tree species to fall between ∼ 40,000 and ∼ 53,000, i.e., at the high end of previous estimates. Contrary to common assumption, the Indo-Pacific region was found to be as species-rich as the Neotropics, with both regions having a minimum of ∼ 19,000-25,000 tree species. Continental Africa is relatively depauperate with a minimum of ∼ 4,500-6,000 tree species. Very few species are shared among the African, American, and the Indo-Pacific regions. We provide a methodological framework for estimating species richness in trees that may help refine species richness estimates of tree-dependent taxa.
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