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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.
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*En hemeroteca, SIBE-San Cristóbal | |
Potencial de generación de servicios ambientales en bosques ribereños de la Microcuenca del Río Araquá, São Pablo, Brasil | |
Rodrigues, Valdemir Antonio (coaut.) ; Jiménez Otárola, Francisco (coaut.) ; Medina dos Santos Olivera, Aretha (coaut.) ; Silva, Fernanda Deniz (coaut.) ; | |
Contenido en: Recursos Naturales y Ambiente No. 48 (agosto 2006), p. 123-128 ISSN: 1659-1216 | |
Bibliotecas:
San Cristóbal
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Los mamíferos silvestres de México / Gerardo Ceballos y Gisselle Oliva (coordinadores) | |
Ceballos, Gerardo (coordinador) ; Oliva, Gisselle (coordinadora) ; | |
Distrito Federal, México : Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad :: Fondo de Cultura Económica , 2005 | |
Clasificación: 599.0972 / M5 | |
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Campeche
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