Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree spe...

• Hovedforfatter: Steege, H., Pitman, N.,Killeen, T.,Laurance, W., Peres, C., Guevara, J., Salomão, R., Castilho, C., Amaral, I., de Almeida, F.,,de Souza Coelho, L., Magnusson, W., Phillips, O., de Andrade, D.,Veiga, M., Irume, M., Martins, M., Molino, J., Sabatier, D., Wittmann, F., Cárdenas, D., da Silva, J., Monteagudo, A., Núñez, P., Manzatto, G., Costa, N., Terborgh, J., Regina, K. Montero, J., Feldpausch, T. Honorio, E., Duque, A. Zartman, C. Mostacedo, B. Vasquez, R. Assis, R. Brilhante Medeiros, M. Fragomeni, M. Andrade, A. Camargo, J. Laurance, S. Mendonça, H. Marimon, B. S. Marimon, B. H. Costa, F. Targhetta, N. Guimarães, I. Brienen, R. Castellanos, H. Duivenvoorden, J. Mogollón, H. Fernandez, M. Aymard, G. Comiskey, J. Damasco, G. Dávila, N. García-Villacorta, R. Stevenson, P. Vincentini, A. Emilio, T. Levis, C. Schietti, J. Souza, P. Alonso, A. Dallmeier, F. Valle, L. Neill, D. Araujo-Murakami, A. Arroyo, L. Antunes, F. Coelho, F. Dantas do Amaral, D. Gribel, R. Garcia, B. Pansonato, P Venticinque, E Fine, P. Toledo, M. Baraloto, C. Cerón, C. Engel, J. Henkel, T. Jimenez, E. Maas, P. (author)
• Andre forfattere: Peñuela Mora, María Cristina (author)
• Format: article
• Udgivet: 2015
• Fag: Amazonia; Conservation; Deforestation; Protected areas; Tree species; Indigenous areas
• Online adgang: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936; http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/223