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...

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Main Authors: Ter Steege, H, Pitman, N, Killeen, T, Laurance, W, Peres, C, Guevara, J, Salomão, R, Castilho, C, Amaral, I, de Almeida Matos, F, de Souza Coelho, L, Magnusson, W, Phillips, O, de Andrade Lima Filho, D, de Jesus Veiga Carim, M, Irume, M, Martins, M, Molino, J, Sabatier, D, Wittmann, F, López, D, da Silva Guimarães, J, Mendoza, A, Vargas, P, Manzatto, A, Reis, N, Terborgh, J, Casula, K, Montero, J, Feldpausch, T, Honorio Coronado, E, Montoya, A, Zartman, C, Mostacedo, B, Vasquez, R, Assis, R, Medeiros, M, Simon, M, Andrade, A, Camargo, J, Laurance, S, Nascimento, H, Marimon, B, Costa, F, Targhetta, N, Vieira, I, Brienen, R, Castellanos, H, Duivenvoorden, J, Mogollón, H, Piedade, M, Aymard C, G, Comiskey, J, Damasco, G, Dávila, N, García-Villacorta, R, Diaz, P, Vincentini, A, Emilio, T, Levis, C, Schietti, J, Souza, P, Alonso, A, Dallmeier, F, Ferreira, L, Neill, D, Araujo-Murakami, A, Arroyo, L, Carvalho, F, Souza, F, do Amaral, D, Gribel, R, Luize, B, Pansonato, M, Venticinque, E, Fine, P, Toledo, M, Baraloto, C, Cerón, C, Engel, J, Henkel, T, Jimenez, E, Maas, P, Mora, M, Petronelli, P, Revilla, J, Silveira, M, Stropp, J, Thomas-Caesar, R, Baker, T, Daly, D, Paredes, M, da Silva, N, Fuentes, A, Jørgensen, P, Schöngart, J, Silman, M, Arboleda, N, Cintra, B, Valverde, F, Di Fiore, A, Phillips, J, van Andel, T, von Hildebrand, P, Barbosa, E, de Matos Bonates, L, de Castro, D, de Sousa Farias, E, Gonzales, T, Guillaumet, J, Hoffman, B, Malhi, Y, de Andrade Miranda, I, Prieto, A, Rudas, A, Ruschell, A, Silva, N, Vela, C, Vos, V, Zent, E, Zent, S, Cano, A, Nascimento, M, Oliveira, A, Ramirez-Angulo, H, Ramos, J, Sierra, R, Tirado, M, Medina, M, van der Heijden, G, Torre, E, Vriesendorp, C, Wang, O, Young, K, Baider, C, Balslev, H, de Castro, N, Farfan-Rios, W, Ferreira, C, Mendoza, C, Mesones, I, Torres-Lezama, A, Giraldo, L, Villarroel, D, Zagt, R, Alexiades, M, Garcia-Cabrera, K, Hernandez, L, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Milliken, W, Cuenca, W, Pansini, S, Pauletto, D, Arevalo, F, Sampaio, A, Valderrama Sandoval, E, Gamarra, L
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015