An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

Slik, Ferry; Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor; Aiba, Shin‐ichiro; Álvarez-Loayza, Patricia; F. Alves, Luciana; S. Ashton, Peter; Balvanera, Patricia; L. Bastian, Meredith; J. Bellingham, Peter; van den Berg, Eduardo; Carlos Bernacci, Luís; da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna; Blanc, Lilian; Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin; Boeckx, Pascal; Bongers, Frans; Boyle, Brad; Bradford, Matt; Q. Brearley, Francis; Breuer‐Ndoundou Hockemba, Mireille; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; C. Leal Matos, Darley; Santiago, Miguel; Luı́s Martins Catharino, Eduardo; Chai, Shauna‐Lee; Chen, Yukai; K. Colwell, Robert; L. Chazdon, Robin; J. Clark, Connie; B. Clark, David; A. Clark, Deborah; Culmsee, Heike; Damas, Kipiro; S. Dattaraja, H.; Dauby, Gilles; Davidar, Priya; J. DeWalt, Saara; Doucet, Jean‐Louis; Duque, Álvaro; Durigan, Giselda; A. O. Eichhorn, Karl; V. Eisenlohr, Pedro; Schmidt Eler, Eduardo; Ewango, Corneille; Farwig, Nina; J. Feeley, Kenneth; Valle Ferreira, Leandro; Field, Richard; Teixeira de Oliveira Filho, Ary; Fletcher, Christine; Forshed, Olle; Antônio Daher Corrêa Franco, Geraldo; Fredriksson, Gabriella; R. Gillespie, Thomas; Gillet, Jean‐François; Amarnath, Giriraj; M. Griffith, Daniel; Grogan, James; A. U. N. Gunatilleke, I.; J. Harris, David; D. Harrison, Rhett; Hector, Andy; Homeier, Jürgen; Imai, Nobuo; Itoh, Akira; A. Jansen, Patrick; Alfredo Joly, Carlos; H. J. de Jong, Bernardus; Kartawinata, Kuswata; Kearsley, Elizabeth; L. Kelly, Daniel; Kenfack, David; Kessler, Michael; Kitayama, Kanehiro; M. Kooyman, Robert; Larney, Eileen; Laumonier, Yves; G. W. Laurance, Susan; G. W. Laurance, Susan; J. Lawes, Michael; Leão do Amaral, Iêda; G. Letcher, Susan; Lindsell, Jeremy; Lu, Xinghui; Mansor, Mashhor; Marjokorpi, Antti; H. Martin, Emanuel; Meilby, Henrik; P. L. Melo, Felipe; J. Metcalfe, Daniel; P. Medjibe, Vincent; Paul Metzger, Jean; Millet, Jérôme; Mohandass, Dharmalingam; Carlos Montero, Juan; de Morisson Valeriano, Márcio; Mugerwa, Badru; Nagamasu, Hidetoshi; Nilus, Reuben; Ochoa‐Gaona, Susana; Onrizal, Onrizal; Page, Navendu; Parolin, Pia; Parren, Marc; Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy; Paudel, Ekananda; Permana, Andrea; Teresa Fernández Piedade, María; C. A. Pitman, Nigel; Poorter, Lourens; Dalberg Poulsen, Axel; R. Poulsen, John; S. Powers, Jennifer; Rama Chandra Prasad, P.; Puyravaud, Jean‐Philippe; A. Razafimahaimodison, Jean-Claude; Reitsma, Jan; Roberto dos Santos, João; Roberto Spironello, Wilson; Romero‐Saltos, Hugo; Rovero, Francesco; Hamuraby Rozak, Andes; Ruokolainen, Kalle; Rutishauser, Ervan; Zamborlini Saiter, Felipe; Saner, Philippe; Almeida Santos, Bráulio; Santos, Fernanda; Kumar Sarker, Swapan; Satdichanh, Manichanh; B. Schmitt, Christine; Schöngart, Jochen; Schulze, Mark; Seiji Suganuma, Márcio; Sheil, Douglas; da Silva Pinheiro, Eduardo; Sist, Plínio; Stévart, Tariq; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I‐Fang; Sunderland, Trey; S. Suresh, H.; Suzuki, Eizi; Tabarelli, Marcelo; Tang, Jangwei; Targhetta, Natália; Theilade, Ida; W. Thomas, Duncan; Tchouto, Peguy; Hurtado, Johanna; Valencia, Renato; van Valkenburg, J.L.C.H.; Van Do, Tran; Vásquez, Rodolfo; Verbeeck, Hans; A. J. Adekunle, V.; Aparecida Vieira, Simone; O. Webb, Campbell; J. S. Whitfeld, Timothy; A. Wich, Serge; Williams, John; Wittmann, Florian; Wöll, Hannsjoerg; Yang, Xiaobo; Yves Adou Yao, Constant; Yap, Sandra; Yoneda, Tsuyoshi; A. Zahawi, Rakan; Zakaria, Rahmad; Zang, Runguo; L. Assis, Rafael; Garcia Luize, Bruno; Martins Venticinque, Eduardo

doi:10.1073/pnas.1423147112

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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Jun 1, 2015

Authors:

Ferry Slik

Víctor Arroyo‐Rodríguez

Shin‐ichiro Aiba

Abstract

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 ...

Subject

Tropical disease

Tree (set theory)

Tropics

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