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SUBMITTER: Ter Steege H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4942782 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ter Steege Hans H Vaessen Rens W RW Cárdenas-López Dairon D Sabatier Daniel D Antonelli Alexandre A de Oliveira Sylvia Mota SM Pitman Nigel C A NC Jørgensen Peter Møller PM Salomão Rafael P RP
Scientific reports 20160713
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 ecol ...[more]