Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

Cardoso, Domingos; Särkinen, Tiina; N. Alexander, Sara; M. Amorim, André; Bittrich, Volker; Celis, Marcela; C. Daly, Douglas; Fiaschi, Pedro; A. Funk, Vicki; Lacerda Giacomin, Leandro; Goldenberg, Renato; Heiden, Gustavo; Ricardo Vieira Iganci, João; L. Kelloff, Carol; Knapp, Sandra; Cavalcante de Lima, Haroldo; Ferreira Pinto Machado, Anderson; Manoel dos Santos, Rubens; de Mello‐Silva, Renato; A. Michelangeli, Fabián; D. Mitchell, John; W. Moonlight, Peter; Luís Rodrigues de Moraes, Pedro; A. Mori, Scott; Sacramento Nunes, Teonildes; D. Pennington, Terry; Rubens Pirani, José; Τ. Prance, Ghillean; Paganucci de Queiroz, Luciano; Rapini, Alessandro; Riina, Ricarda; Alberto Vargas Rincon, Carlos; Roque, Nádia; Hiroaki Shimizu, Gustavo; Sobral, Marcos; Renato Stehmann, João; D. Stevens, W.; M. Taylor, Charlotte; Trovó, Marcelo; van den Berg, Cássio; van der Werff, Henk; Lage Viana, Pedro; E. Zartman, Charles; Campostrini Forzza, Rafaela

doi:10.1073/pnas.1706756114

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Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Sep 18, 2017

Authors:

Domingos Cardoso

Tiina Särkinen

Sara N. Alexander

Abstract

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 lowl...

Subject

Amazon rainforest

Amazonian

Biodiversity

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