Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora

Hans ter Steege; Nigel C A Pitman; Iêda Leão Do Amaral; Luiz de Souza Coelho; Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos; Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho; Rafael P Salomão; Florian Wittmann; Carolina V Castilho; Juan Ernesto Guevara; Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim; Oliver L Phillips; William E Magnusson; Daniel Sabatier; Juan David Cardenas Revilla; Jean-François Molino; Mariana Victória Irume; Maria Pires Martins; José Renan da Silva Guimarães; José Ferreira Ramos; Olaf S Bánki; Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade; Dairon Cárdenas López; Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues; Layon O Demarchi; Jochen Schöngart; Everton José Almeida; Luciane Ferreira Barbosa; Larissa Cavalheiro; Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos; Bruno Garcia Luize; Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo; Percy Núñez Vargas; Thiago Sanna Freire Silva; Eduardo Martins Venticinque; Angelo Gilberto Manzatto; Neidiane Farias Costa Reis; John Terborgh; Katia Regina Casula; Euridice N Honorio Coronado; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Juan Carlos Montero; Flávia R C Costa; Ted R Feldpausch; Adriano Costa Quaresma; Nicolás Castaño Arboleda; Charles Eugene Zartman; Timothy J Killeen; Beatriz S Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; Rodolfo Vasquez; Bonifacio Mostacedo; Rafael L Assis; Chris Baraloto; Dário Dantas Do Amaral; Julien Engel; Pascal Petronelli; Hernán Castellanos; Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros; Marcelo Fragomeni Simon; Ana Andrade; José Luís Camargo; William F Laurance; Susan G W Laurance; Lorena Maniguaje Rincón; Juliana Schietti; Thaiane R Sousa; Emanuelle de Sousa Farias; Maria Aparecida Lopes; José Leonardo Lima Magalhães; Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento; Helder Lima de Queiroz; Gerardo A Aymard C; Roel Brienen; Pablo R Stevenson; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Tim R Baker; Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra; Yuri Oliveira Feitosa; Hugo F Mogollón; Joost F Duivenvoorden; Carlos A Peres; Miles R Silman; Leandro Valle Ferreira; José Rafael Lozada; James A Comiskey; Freddie C Draper; José Julio de Toledo; Gabriel Damasco; Roosevelt García-Villacorta; Aline Lopes; Alberto Vicentini; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Alfonso Alonso; Luzmila Arroyo; Francisco Dallmeier; Vitor H F Gomes; Eliana M Jimenez; David Neill; Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora; Janaína Costa Noronha; Daniel P P de Aguiar; Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa; Yennie K Bredin; Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo; Fernanda Antunes Carvalho; Fernanda Coelho de Souza; Kenneth J Feeley; Rogerio Gribel; Torbjørn Haugaasen; Joseph E Hawes; Marcelo Petratti Pansonato; Marcos Ríos Paredes; Jos Barlow; Erika Berenguer; Izaias Brasil da Silva; Maria Julia Ferreira; Joice Ferreira; Paul V A Fine; Marcelino Carneiro Guedes; Carolina Levis; Juan Carlos Licona; Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra; Vincent Antoine Vos; Carlos Cerón; Flávia Machado Durgante; Émile Fonty; Terry W Henkel; John Ethan Householder; Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; Edwin Pos; Marcos Silveira; Juliana Stropp; Raquel Thomas; Doug Daly; Kyle G Dexter; William Milliken; Guido Pardo Molina; Toby Pennington; Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira; Bianca Weiss Albuquerque; Wegliane Campelo; Alfredo Fuentes; Bente Klitgaard; José Luis Marcelo Pena; J Sebastián Tello; Corine Vriesendorp; Jerome Chave; Anthony Di Fiore; Renato Richard Hilário; Luciana de Oliveira Pereira; Juan Fernando Phillips; Gonzalo Rivas-Torres; Tinde R van Andel; Patricio von Hildebrand; William Balee; Edelcilio Marques Barbosa; Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates; Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza; Ricardo Zárate Gómez; Therany Gonzales; George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales; Bruce Hoffman; André Braga Junqueira; Yadvinder Malhi; Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda; Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto; Adriana Prieto; Agustín Rudas; Ademir R Ruschel; Natalino Silva; César I A Vela; Egleé L Zent; Stanford Zent; Angela Cano; Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez; Diego F Correa; Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa; Bernardo Monteiro Flores; David Galbraith; Milena Holmgren; Michelle Kalamandeen; Guilherme Lobo; Luis Torres Montenegro; Marcelo Trindade Nascimento; Alexandre A Oliveira; Maihyra Marina Pombo; Hirma Ramirez-Angulo; Maira Rocha; Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller; Rodrigo Sierra; Milton Tirado; Maria Natalia Umaña; Geertje van der Heijden; Emilio Vilanova Torre; Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui; Cláudia Baider; Henrik Balslev; Sasha Cárdenas; Luisa Fernanda Casas; María José Endara; William Farfan-Rios; Cid Ferreira; Reynaldo Linares-Palomino; Casimiro Mendoza; Italo Mesones; Germaine Alexander Parada; Armando Torres-Lezama; Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo; Daniel Villarroel; Roderick Zagt; Miguel N Alexiades; Edmar Almeida de Oliveira; Karina Garcia-Cabrera; Lionel Hernandez; Walter Palacios Cuenca; Susamar Pansini; Daniela Pauletto; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Adeilza Felipe Sampaio; Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval; Luis Valenzuela Gamarra; Aurora Levesley; Georgia Pickavance; Karina Melgaço

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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora

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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora

Hans ter Steege, Nigel C A Pitman, Iêda Leão Do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P Salomão, Florian Wittmann, Carolina V Castilho, Juan Ernesto Guevara, …

Communications Biology, Vol.6

08/11/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6

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Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and investigated drivers for diversity and richness. Using only location, stratified by forest type, as predictor, our spatial model, to the best of our knowledge, provides the most accurate map of tree diversity in Amazonia to date, explaining approximately 70% of the tree diversity and species-richness. Large soil-forest combinations determine a significant percentage of the variation in tree species-richness and tree alpha-diversity in Amazonian forest-plots. We suggest that the size and fragmentation of these systems drive their large-scale diversity patterns and hence local diversity. A model not using location but cumulative water deficit, tree density, and temperature seasonality explains 47% of the tree species-richness in the terra-firme forest in Amazonia. Over large areas across Amazonia, residuals of this relationship are small and poorly spatially structured, suggesting that much of the residual variation may be local. The Guyana Shield area has consistently negative residuals, showing that this area has lower tree species-richness than expected by our models. We provide extensive plot meta-data, including tree density, tree alpha-diversity and tree speciesrichness results and gridded maps at 0.1-degree resolution.

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Title: Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora
Creators - without role: Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Nigel C A Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
Iêda Leão Do Amaral - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz de Souza Coelho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Rafael P Salomão - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Florian Wittmann - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Carolina V Castilho - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Juan Ernesto Guevara - Universidad de Las Américas
Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim
Oliver L Phillips - University of Leeds
William E Magnusson - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Daniel Sabatier - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Juan David Cardenas Revilla - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jean-François Molino - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Mariana Victória Irume - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Maria Pires Martins - National Institute of Amazonian Research
José Renan da Silva Guimarães
José Ferreira Ramos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Olaf S Bánki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Dairon Cárdenas López
Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues
Layon O Demarchi - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jochen Schöngart - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Everton José Almeida - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Luciane Ferreira Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Larissa Cavalheiro - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Bruno Garcia Luize - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo - National Institute for Space Research
Percy Núñez Vargas - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Thiago Sanna Freire Silva - University of Stirling
Eduardo Martins Venticinque - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Angelo Gilberto Manzatto - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Neidiane Farias Costa Reis - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
John Terborgh - James Cook University
Katia Regina Casula - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Euridice N Honorio Coronado
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Juan Carlos Montero - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Flávia R C Costa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Ted R Feldpausch - University of Leeds
Adriano Costa Quaresma - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nicolás Castaño Arboleda
Charles Eugene Zartman - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Timothy J Killeen - Universidad Nacional del Oriente
Beatriz S Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior
Rodolfo Vasquez
Bonifacio Mostacedo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Rafael L Assis - Vale Technological Institute
Chris Baraloto - Florida International University [Miami]
Dário Dantas Do Amaral
Julien Engel - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Pascal Petronelli - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Hernán Castellanos - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Marcelo Fragomeni Simon - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Ana Andrade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
José Luís Camargo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
William F Laurance - James Cook University
Susan G W Laurance - James Cook University
Lorena Maniguaje Rincón
Juliana Schietti - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Thaiane R Sousa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Maria Aparecida Lopes - Universidade Federal do Pará
José Leonardo Lima Magalhães - Universidade Federal do Pará
Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Helder Lima de Queiroz - Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá
Gerardo A Aymard C
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Pablo R Stevenson - Universidad de Los Andes
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Tim R Baker
Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra - Forest Research
Yuri Oliveira Feitosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hugo F Mogollón
Joost F Duivenvoorden - University of Amsterdam
Carlos A Peres - University of East Anglia
Miles R Silman - Wake Forest University
Leandro Valle Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
José Rafael Lozada - University of the Andes
James A Comiskey - National Park Service
Freddie C Draper - University of Liverpool
José Julio de Toledo - Universidade Federal do Amapá
Gabriel Damasco - University of Gothenburg
Roosevelt García-Villacorta - Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica
Aline Lopes - Universidade de Brasília
Alberto Vicentini - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Alfonso Alonso - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Luzmila Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Francisco Dallmeier - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Vitor H F Gomes - Centro Universitário do Pará
Eliana M Jimenez - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora
Janaína Costa Noronha - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Daniel P P de Aguiar - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Yennie K Bredin - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Fernanda Coelho de Souza - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Kenneth J Feeley - University of Miami
Rogerio Gribel - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Torbjørn Haugaasen - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Joseph E Hawes - University of Cumbria
Marcelo Petratti Pansonato - Universidade de São Paulo
Marcos Ríos Paredes
Jos Barlow - Lancaster University
Erika Berenguer - Lancaster University
Izaias Brasil da Silva - Universidade Federal do Acre
Maria Julia Ferreira - Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Joice Ferreira - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Paul V A Fine - University of California, Berkeley
Marcelino Carneiro Guedes - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Carolina Levis - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Juan Carlos Licona - Bolivian Forest Research Institute
Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra
Vincent Antoine Vos - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
Carlos Cerón - Central University of Ecuador
Flávia Machado Durgante - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Émile Fonty - University of French Guiana
Terry W Henkel - California State Polytechnic University
John Ethan Householder - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco - Amazon National University of Madre de Dios
Edwin Pos - Utrecht University
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
Juliana Stropp - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Raquel Thomas - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Doug Daly - New York Botanical Garden
Kyle G Dexter - University of Edinburgh
William Milliken - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Guido Pardo Molina - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
Toby Pennington
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Bianca Weiss Albuquerque
Wegliane Campelo - Universidade Federal do Amapá
Alfredo Fuentes - Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia
Bente Klitgaard - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
José Luis Marcelo Pena - Universidad Nacional de Jaén
J Sebastián Tello - Missouri Botanical Garden
Corine Vriesendorp - Field Museum of Natural History
Jerome Chave - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Anthony Di Fiore - The University of Texas at Austin
Renato Richard Hilário - Universidade Federal do Amapá
Luciana de Oliveira Pereira - University of Exeter
Juan Fernando Phillips
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Tinde R van Andel
Patricio von Hildebrand
William Balee - Tulane University
Edelcilio Marques Barbosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza
Ricardo Zárate Gómez
Therany Gonzales
George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales
Bruce Hoffman - Amazon
André Braga Junqueira - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto
Adriana Prieto - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Agustín Rudas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ademir R Ruschel - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Natalino Silva - Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia
César I A Vela - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Egleé L Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Stanford Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Angela Cano - University of Cambridge
Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez
Diego F Correa - University of Queensland
Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Bernardo Monteiro Flores - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
David Galbraith - University of Leeds
Milena Holmgren - Wageningen University & Research
Michelle Kalamandeen - McMaster University
Guilherme Lobo - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Luis Torres Montenegro
Marcelo Trindade Nascimento - State University of Norte Fluminense
Alexandre A Oliveira - Universidade de São Paulo
Maihyra Marina Pombo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo - University of the Andes
Maira Rocha - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller - Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Rodrigo Sierra
Milton Tirado
Maria Natalia Umaña - University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Geertje van der Heijden - University of Nottingham
Emilio Vilanova Torre
Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui
Cláudia Baider - Universidade de São Paulo
Henrik Balslev - Aarhus University
Sasha Cárdenas - Universidad de Los Andes
Luisa Fernanda Casas - Universidad de Los Andes
María José Endara
William Farfan-Rios - Wake Forest University
Cid Ferreira - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Casimiro Mendoza - University of San Simón
Italo Mesones - University of California, Berkeley
Germaine Alexander Parada - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Armando Torres-Lezama - University of the Andes
Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo
Daniel Villarroel - Fundación PROINPA
Roderick Zagt
Miguel N Alexiades - University of Kent
Edmar Almeida de Oliveira - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Karina Garcia-Cabrera - Wake Forest University
Lionel Hernandez - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Walter Palacios Cuenca - Universidad Técnica del Norte
Susamar Pansini - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Daniela Pauletto - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo
Adeilza Felipe Sampaio - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval
Luis Valenzuela Gamarra
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Georgia Pickavance - University of Leeds
Karina Melgaço - University of Leeds
Publication Details: Communications Biology, Vol.6
Identifiers: 9936762309311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-04286542