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

Hans ter Steege; Nigel Pitman; Timothy Killeen; William Laurance; Carlos Peres; Juan Ernesto Guevara; Rafael P Salomão; Carolina Castilho; Iêda Leão Amaral; Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos; Luiz de Souza Coelho; William Magnusson; Oliver Phillips; Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho; Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim; Mariana Victória Irume; Maria Pires Martins; Jean-François Molino; Daniel Sabatier; Florian Wittmann; Dairon Cárdenas López; José Renan da Silva Guimarães; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Percy Núñez Vargas; Angelo Gilberto Manzatto; Neidiane Farias Costa Reis; John Terborgh; Katia Regina Casula; Juan Carlos Montero; Ted Feldpausch; Euridice Honorio Coronado; Alvaro Javier Duque Montoya; Charles Eugene Zartman; Bonifacio Mostacedo; Rodolfo Vasquez; Rafael Assis; Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros; Marcelo Fragomeni Simon; Ana Andrade; José Luís Camargo; Susan Laurance; Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento; Beatriz Marimon; Ben-Hur Marimon; Flávia Costa; Natalia Targhetta; Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira; Roel Brienen; Hernán Castellanos; Joost Duivenvoorden; Hugo Mogollón; Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade; Gerardo Aymard C.; James Comiskey; Gabriel Damasco; Nallarett Davila; Roosevelt Garcia-Villacorta; Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz; Alberto Vincentini; Thaise Emilio; Carolina Levis; Juliana Schietti; Priscila Souza; Alfonso Alonso; Francisco Dallmeier; Leandro Valle Ferreira; David Neill; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Luzmila Arroyo; Fernanda Antunes Carvalho; Fernanda Coelho Souza; Dário Dantas Do Amaral; Rogério Gribel; Bruno Garcia Luize; Marcelo Petrati Pansonato; Eduardo Venticinque; Paul V A Fine; Marisol Toledo; Carlos Cerón; Julien Engel; Terry W Henkel; Eliana Jimenez; Paul Maas; Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora; Pascal Petronelli; Juan David Cardenas Revilla; Marcos Silveira; Juliana Stropp; Raquel Thomas-Caesar; Tim Baker; Doug Daly; Marcos Ríos Paredes; Naara Ferreira da Silva; Alfredo Fuentes; Peter Møller Jørgensen; Jochen Schöngart; Miles Silman; Nicolás Castaño Arboleda; Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Anthony Di Fiore; Juan Fernando Phillips; Tinde van Andel; Patricio von Hildebrand; Edelcilio Marques Barbosa; Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates; Deborah de Castro; Emanuelle de Sousa Farias; Therany Gonzales; Jean-Louis Guillaumet; Bruce Hoffman; Yadvinder Malhi; Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda; Adriana Prieto; Agustin Rudas; Ademir Ruschell; Natalino Silva; César Vela; Vincent Vos; Eglée Zent; Stanford Zent; Angela Cano; Marcelo Trindade Nascimento; Alexandre Oliveira; Hirma Ramirez-Angulo; José Ferreira Ramos; Rodrigo Sierra; Milton Tirado; Maria Natalia Umaña Medina; Geertje van Der Heijden; Emilio Vilanova Torre; Corine Vriesendorp; Ophelia Wang; Kenneth Young; Claudia Baider; Henrik Balslev; Natalia de Castro; William Farfan-Rios; Cid Ferreira; Casimiro Mendoza; Italo Mesones; Armando Torres-Lezama; Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo; Daniel Villarroel; Roderick Zagt; Miguel Alexiades; Karina Garcia-Cabrera; Lionel Hernandez; Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; William Milliken; Walter Palacios Cuenca; Susamar Pansini; Daniela Pauletto; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Adeilza Felipe Sampaio; Elvis Valderrama Sandoval; Luis Valenzuela Gamarra

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

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

Hans ter Steege, Nigel Pitman, Timothy Killeen, William Laurance, Carlos Peres, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Rafael P Salomão, Carolina Castilho, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, …

Science Advances , Vol.1(10)

27/11/2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936

PMID: 26702442

Abstract

Conservation

Amazonia

Protected areas

Indigenous areas

Tree species

Deforestation

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 species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict that most of the world’s >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century.

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Title: Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
Creators - without role: Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Nigel Pitman - Duke University
Timothy Killeen
William Laurance
Carlos Peres - University of East Anglia
Juan Ernesto Guevara - Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
Rafael P Salomão - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Carolina Castilho - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Iêda Leão Amaral - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz de Souza Coelho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
William Magnusson - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
Mariana Victória Irume - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Maria Pires Martins - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jean-François Molino - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Daniel Sabatier - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Florian Wittmann - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Dairon Cárdenas López - Instituto Sinchi
José Renan da Silva Guimarães - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Percy Núñez Vargas - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Angelo Gilberto Manzatto - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Neidiane Farias Costa Reis - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
John Terborgh - Duke University
Katia Regina Casula - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Juan Carlos Montero - Bolivian Forest Research Institute
Ted Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Euridice Honorio Coronado
Alvaro Javier Duque Montoya - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Charles Eugene Zartman - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Bonifacio Mostacedo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Rodolfo Vasquez - Missouri Botanical Garden
Rafael Assis - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros
Marcelo Fragomeni Simon - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Ana Andrade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
José Luís Camargo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Susan Laurance - James Cook University
Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Beatriz Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben-Hur Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Flávia Costa
Natalia Targhetta - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Hernán Castellanos - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Joost Duivenvoorden - University of Amsterdam
Hugo Mogollón
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Gerardo Aymard C.
James Comiskey - National Park Service
Gabriel Damasco - University of California, Berkeley
Nallarett Davila - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Roosevelt Garcia-Villacorta - University of Edinburgh
Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz
Alberto Vincentini - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Thaise Emilio - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Carolina Levis - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Juliana Schietti - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Priscila Souza - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Alfonso Alonso - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Francisco Dallmeier - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Leandro Valle Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Luzmila Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Fernanda Coelho Souza
Dário Dantas Do Amaral - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Rogério Gribel - Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
Bruno Garcia Luize - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marcelo Petrati Pansonato - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Eduardo Venticinque - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Paul V A Fine - University of California, Berkeley
Marisol Toledo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Carlos Cerón - Central University of Ecuador
Julien Engel - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Terry W Henkel - Humboldt State University
Eliana Jimenez - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Paul Maas - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora - Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM
Pascal Petronelli - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Juan David Cardenas Revilla - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
Juliana Stropp - Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Raquel Thomas-Caesar - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Tim Baker
Doug Daly - New York Botanical Garden
Marcos Ríos Paredes
Naara Ferreira da Silva - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Alfredo Fuentes
Peter Møller Jørgensen - Missouri Botanical Garden
Jochen Schöngart - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Miles Silman - Wake Forest University
Nicolás Castaño Arboleda - Instituto Sinchi
Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Fernando Cornejo Valverde - Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
Anthony Di Fiore - The University of Texas at Austin
Juan Fernando Phillips
Tinde van Andel - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Patricio von Hildebrand
Edelcilio Marques Barbosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Deborah de Castro
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias
Therany Gonzales
Jean-Louis Guillaumet - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Bruce Hoffman
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Adriana Prieto - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Agustin Rudas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ademir Ruschell - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Natalino Silva
César Vela
Vincent Vos - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
Eglée Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Stanford Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Angela Cano - Universidad de Los Andes
Marcelo Trindade Nascimento - State University of Norte Fluminense
Alexandre Oliveira - Universidade de São Paulo
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo - University of the Andes
José Ferreira Ramos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Rodrigo Sierra - Geoinformática y Sistemas , Cia. Ltda
Milton Tirado
Maria Natalia Umaña Medina - University of Maryland, College Park
Geertje van Der Heijden - University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Emilio Vilanova Torre - Universidad de los Andes [Bogota]
Corine Vriesendorp - Field Museum of Natural History
Ophelia Wang - Northern Arizona University
Kenneth Young - The University of Texas at Austin
Claudia Baider - Universidade de São Paulo
Henrik Balslev - Aarhus University
Natalia de Castro - National Institute of Amazonian Research
William Farfan-Rios - Wake Forest University
Cid Ferreira - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Casimiro Mendoza - University of San Simón
Italo Mesones - University of California, Berkeley
Armando Torres-Lezama - University of the Andes
Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Daniel Villarroel - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Roderick Zagt
Miguel Alexiades - University of Kent
Karina Garcia-Cabrera - Wake Forest University
Lionel Hernandez - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
William Milliken - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Walter Palacios Cuenca - Universidad Técnica del Norte
Susamar Pansini - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Daniela Pauletto - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo - Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana
Adeilza Felipe Sampaio - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Elvis Valderrama Sandoval
Luis Valenzuela Gamarra - Missouri Botanical Garden
Publication Details: Science Advances , Vol.1(10)
Grant note: Alberta Mennega Stichting; ALCOA Suriname; Amazon Conservation Association; Banco de la Republica; CELOS Suriname; CAPES (PNPG); Conselho Nacional de Desenvovimento Cientifico e Tecnologico of Brazil (CNPq); PELD [558069/2009-6, 403792/2012-6]; PRONEX-FAPEAM [1600/2006]; Areas Umidas, MAUA; PPBio; PVE [004/2012]; Universal [479599/2008-4, 3078072009-6]; FAPEAM [DCR/2006]; Hidroveg; FAPESP; PRONEX; Colciencias; CONICIT; Duke University; Ecopetrol; FEPIM [044/2003]; The Field Museum; Conservation International/DC; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Guyana Forestry Commission; Investissement d'Avenir grant of the French ANR [ANR-10-LABX-0025]; IVIC; Margaret Mee Amazon Trust; Miquel fonds; MCTI-Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi-Proc [407232/2013-3-PVE-MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPq]; National Geographic Society [7754-04, 8047-06, 6679-99, 7435-03, 8481-08]; NSF Dissertation Improvement; Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research WOTRO [WB85-335, W84-581]; Primate Conservation Inc.; Programme Ecosystemes Tropicaux (French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development); Shell Prospecting and Development Peru; Smithsonian Institution's Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program; Stichting het van Eeden-fonds; The Body Shop; The Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador; TROBIT; TROBIT; Tropenbos International; U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF-0743457, NSF0101775, NSF-0918591]; USAID; Variety Woods Guyana; Wenner-Gren Foundation; WWF-Brazil; WWF-Guianas; Xlleme Contrat de Plan Etat Region-Guyane (French Government and European Union); European Union; UK Natural Environment Research Council; Gordon and BettyMoore Foundation; European Research Council Advanced Grant; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award; [NSF-0726797]
Identifiers: 9941076809311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-02285097