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J W Ferry Slik1, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez2, Shin-Ichiro Aiba3, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza4, Luciana F Alves5, Peter Ashton6, Patricia Balvanera2, Meredith L Bastian7, Peter J Bellingham8, Eduardo van den Berg9, Luis Bernacci5, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo10, Lilian Blanc11, Katrin Böhning-Gaese12, Pascal Boeckx13, Frans Bongers14, Brad Boyle15, Matt Bradford16, Francis Q Brearley17, Mireille Breuer-Ndoundou Hockemba18, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin19, Darley Calderado Leal Matos20, Miguel Castillo-Santiago21, Eduardo L M Catharino22, Shauna-Lee Chai23, Yukai Chen24, Robert K Colwell25, Robin L Chazdon, Chazdon L Robin26, Connie Clark4, David B Clark27, Deborah A Clark27, Heike Culmsee28, Kipiro Damas29, Handanakere S Dattaraja30, Gilles Dauby31, Priya Davidar32, Saara J DeWalt33, Jean-Louis Doucet34, Alvaro Duque35, Giselda Durigan36, Karl A O Eichhorn37, Pedro V Eisenlohr38, Eduardo Eler39, Corneille Ewango18, Nina Farwig40, Kenneth J Feeley41, Leandro Ferreira20, Richard Field42, Ary T de Oliveira Filho43, Christine Fletcher44, Olle Forshed45, Geraldo Franco36, Gabriella Fredriksson46, Thomas Gillespie47, Jean-François Gillet34, Giriraj Amarnath48, Daniel M Griffith49, James Grogan50, Nimal Gunatilleke51, David Harris52, Rhett Harrison53, Andy Hector54, Jürgen Homeier28, Nobuo Imai55, Akira Itoh56, Patrick A Jansen57, Carlos A Joly58, Bernardus H J de Jong21, Kuswata Kartawinata59, Elizabeth Kearsley13, Daniel L Kelly60, David Kenfack61, Michael Kessler62, Kanehiro Kitayama63, Robert Kooyman64, Eileen Larney65, Yves Laumonier66, Susan Laurance67, William F Laurance67, Michael J Lawes68, Ieda Leao do Amaral39, Susan G Letcher69, Jeremy Lindsell70, Xinghui Lu71, Asyraf Mansor72, Antti Marjokorpi73, Emanuel H Martin74, Henrik Meilby75, Felipe P L Melo76, Daniel J Metcalfe77, Vincent P Medjibe4, Jean Paul Metzger78, Jerome Millet79, D Mohandass80, Juan C Montero81, Márcio de Morisson Valeriano10, Badru Mugerwa82, Hidetoshi Nagamasu63, Reuben Nilus83, Susana Ochoa-Gaona21, Navendu Page30, Pia Parolin84, Marc Parren14, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy32, Ekananda Paudel85, Andrea Permana62, Maria T F Piedade39, Nigel C A Pitman4, Lourens Poorter14, Axel D Poulsen86, John Poulsen4, Jennifer Powers87, Rama C Prasad88, Jean-Philippe Puyravaud89, Jean-Claude Razafimahaimodison65, Jan Reitsma90, João Roberto Dos Santos10, Wilson Roberto Spironello39, Hugo Romero-Saltos91, Francesco Rovero92, Andes Hamuraby Rozak93, Kalle Ruokolainen94, Ervan Rutishauser95, Felipe Saiter96, Philippe Saner62, Braulio A Santos97, Fernanda Santos20, Swapan K Sarker98, Manichanh Satdichanh85, Christine B Schmitt99, Jochen Schöngart100, Mark Schulze101, Marcio S Suganuma78, Douglas Sheil102, Eduardo da Silva Pinheiro103, Plinio Sist104, Tariq Stevart105, Raman Sukumar30, I-Fang Sun106, Terry Sunderland, Terry Sunderand66, H S Suresh30, Eizi Suzuki3, Marcelo Tabarelli76, Jangwei Tang80, Natália Targhetta100, Ida Theilade75, Duncan W Thomas107, Peguy Tchouto108, Johanna Hurtado109, Renato Valencia110, Johan L C H van Valkenburg111, Tran Van Do112, Rodolfo Vasquez105, Hans Verbeeck13, Victor Adekunle113, Simone A Vieira58, Campbell O Webb114, Timothy Whitfeld115, Serge A Wich116, John Williams117, Florian Wittmann118, Hannsjoerg Wöll119, Xiaobo Yang120, C Yves Adou Yao121, Sandra L Yap122, Tsuyoshi Yoneda3, Rakan A Zahawi109, Rahmad Zakaria72, Runguo Zang71, Rafael L de Assis123, Bruno Garcia Luize39, Eduardo M Venticinque124.
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 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.Keywords: Fisher’s log series; diversity estimation; pantropical; spatial richness patterns; tropical tree species richness
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26034279 PMCID： PMC4475970 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.1423147112
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205