Extinction risks of Amazonian plant species.
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SUBMITTER: Feeley KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2718353 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Extinction risks of Amazonian plant species.
Feeley Kenneth J KJ Silman Miles R MR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090714 30
Estimates of the number, and preferably the identity, of species that will be threatened by land-use change and habitat loss are an invaluable tool for setting conservation priorities. Here, we use collections data and ecoregion maps to generate spatially explicit distributions for more than 40,000 vascular plant species from the Amazon basin (representing more than 80% of the estimated Amazonian plant diversity). Using the distribution maps, we then estimate the rates of habitat loss and associ ...[more]
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