Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree fora
2020
Ter Steege, Hans | Prado, Paulo I. | de Lima, Renato A.F. | Pos, Edwin | Souza Coelho, Luiz | Lima Filho, Diogenes | Salomão, Rafael P. | Leão Amaral, Iêda | Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia | Castilho, Carolina | Phillips, Oliver | Guevara, Juan Ernesto | Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga | Cárdenas López, Dairon | Magnusson, William | Wittmann, Florian | Pires Martins, Maria | Sabatier, Daniel | Irume, Mariana Victória | Silva Guimarães, José Renan | Molino, Jean-François | Bánki, Olaf | Piedade, Maria Teresa F. | Pitman, Nigel | Ferreira Ramos, José | Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel | Venticinque, Eduardo M. | Luize, Bruno Garcia | Núñez Vargas, Percy | Sanna Freire Silva, Thiago | Leão Novo, Evlyn | Costa Reis, Neidiane | Terborgh, John | Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto | Casula, Katia Regina | Honorio Coronado, Euridice | Montero, Juan Carlos | Duque, Alvaro | Costa, Flávia | Arboleda, Nicolas Castano | Schöngart, Jochen | Zartman, CE | Killeen, Timothy J. | Marimon, Beatriz S. | Marimon, Ben Hur Junior | Vasquez, Rodolfo | Mostacedo, Bonifacio | Demarchi, Layon | Feldpausch, Ted R. | Engel, Julien | Petronelli, Pascal | Baraloto, Christopher | Leandro de Assis, Rafael | Castellanos, Hernan | Fragomeni Simon, Marcelo | Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo | Quaresma, Adriano | Laurance, Susan G.W. | Rincón, Lorena M. | Andrade, Ana | Sousa, Thaiane R. | Camargo, José Luis C. | Schietti, Juliana | Laurance, William F. | Queiroz, Helder | Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo | Aparecida Lopes, Maria | Sousa Farias, Emanuelle | Lima Magalhães, José Leonardo | Brienen, Roel | Aymard, Gerardo | Cardenas Revilla, Juan David | Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia | Ladvocat Cintra, Bruno | Stevenson, Pablo | Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira | Duivenvoorden, Joost F. | Mogollón, Hugo F. | Murakami, Alejandro Araujo | Valle Ferreira, Leandro | Lozada, José Rafael | Comiskey, James A. | Toledo, José Julio | Damasco, Gabriel | Dávila, Nállarett | Lopes, Aline | Garcia-Villacorta, Roosevelt | Draper, Freddie | Vicentini, Alberto | Valverde, Fernando Cornejo | Lloyd, Jon | Gomes, Victor | Neill, David | Alonso, Alfonso | Dallmeier, Francisco | Coelho de Souza, Fernanda | Gribel, Rogerio | Arroyo, Luzmila | Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda | Portela de Aguiar, Daniel Praia | Amaral, Dário Dantas | Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti | Feeley, Kenneth J. | Berenguer, Erika | Fine, Paul V.A. | Carneiro Guedes, Marcelino | Barlow, J | Ferreira, Joice | Villa, Boris | Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina | Jimenez, Eliana M. | Licona, Juan Carlos | Cerón, Carlos | Thomas, Raquel | Maas, Paul | Silveira, Marcos | Henkel, Terry W. | Stropp, Juliana | Paredes, MR | Dexter, Kyle G. | Daly, Doug | Baker, Tim | Chuquimaco, Isau | Milliken, William
Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spatial aggregation to an extended database of forest plots with up-to-date taxonomy. We show that the species abundance distribution of Amazonia is best approximated by a logseries with aggregated individuals, where aggregation increases with rarity. By averaging several methods to estimate total richness, we confirm that over 15,000 tree species are expected to occur in Amazonia. We also show that using ten times the number of plots would result in an increase to just ~50% of those 15,000 estimated species. To get a more complete sample of all tree species, rigorous field campaigns may be needed but the number of trees in Amazonia will remain an estimate for years to come.
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