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SUBMITTER: Cardoso D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635885 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170918 40
Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published checklists based on verified voucher data. Here we collate taxonomically verified checklists to present a list of seed plant species from lowland Amazon rain forests. Our list comprises 14,003 species, of which 6,727 are trees. These figures are similar to estimates derived from nonparametric ecological models, but they contrast strongly wi ...[more]