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Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (2015) 24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(24), 7472-7477 Slik, J W F, Arroyo-rodríguez, V, Aiba, S, Alvarez-loayza, P, Alves, L F, Ashton, P, Balvanera, P, Bastian, M L, Bellingham, P J, Van Den Berg, E, Bernacci, L, Da Conceição Bispo, P, Blanc, L, Böhning-gaese, K, Boeckx, P, Bongers, F, Boyle, B, Bradford, M, Brearley, F Q, Breuer-ndoundou Hockemba, M, Bunyavejchewin, S, Calderado Leal Matos, D, Castillo-santiago, M, Catharino, E L M, Chai, S, Chen, Y, Colwell, R K, Chazdon, R L, Clark, C, Clark, D B, Clark, D A, Culmsee, H, Damas, K, Dattaraja, H S, Dauby, G, Davidar, P, Dewalt, S J, Doucet, J, Duque, A, Durigan, G, Eichhorn, K A O, Eisenlohr, P V, Eler, E, Ewango, C, Farwig, N, Harris, D, Thomas, D W & Williams, J 2015, ' An estimate of the number of tropical tree species ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 24, pp. 7472-7477 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423147112Test Repositório Institucional do INPA Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) instacron:INPA Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
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The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting of 657,630 trees belonging to 11,371 species, we use a fitted value of Fisher's alpha and an approximate pantropical stem total to estimate the minimum number of tropical forest tree species to fall between ∼40,000 and ∼53,000, i.e. at the high end of previous estimates. Contrary to common assumption, the Indo-Pacific region was found to be as species-rich as the Neotropics, with both regions having a minimum of ∼19,000-25,000 tree species. Continental Africa is relatively depauperate with a minimum of ∼4,500-6,000 tree species. Very few species are shared among the African, American, and the Indo-Pacific regions. We provide a methodological framework for estimating species richness in trees that may help refine species richness estimates of tree-dependent taxa. 0 SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published |