The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa
2016
ter Steege, Hans | Vaessen, Rens, W | Cárdenas-López, Dairon | Sabatier, Daniel | Antonelli, Alexandre | Mota de Oliveira, Sylvia | Pitman, Nigel | Jørgensen, Peter, Møller | Salomão, Rafael, P | Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden] | Instituto SINCHI | Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie]) | Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg (GU) | Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment ; Duke University [Durham] | Missouri Botanical Garden | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG)
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Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]anglais. Amazonia is the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth, and the debate over how many tree species grow there remains contentious. Here we provide a checklist of all tree species collected to date, and describe spatial and temporal trends in data accumulation. We report 530,025 unique collections of trees in Amazonia, dating between 1707 and 2015, for a total of 11,676 species in 1225 genera and 140 families. These figures support recent estimates of 16,000 total Amazonian tree species based on ecological plot data from the Amazonian Tree Diversity Network. Botanical collection in Amazonia is characterized by three major peaks, centred around 1840, 1920, and 1980, which are associated with flora projects and the establishment of inventory plots. Most collections were made in the 20th century. The number of collections has increased exponentially, but shows a slowdown in the last two decades. We find that a species' range size is a better predictor of the number of times it has been collected than the species' estimated basin-wide population size. Finding, describing, and documenting the distribution of the remaining species will require coordinated efforts at under-collected sites.
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