A C Gerardo Aymard

TL;DR: The finding that Amazonia is dominated by just 227 tree species implies that most biogeochemical cycling in the world’s largest tropical forest is performed by a tiny sliver of its diversity.

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the historic evolution of the biomass dynamics of the Amazon rainforest over three decades using a distributed network of 321 plots and find a long-term decreasing trend of carbon accumulation.

TL;DR: The existence of significant phylogenetic signal allows clearer predictions of the links between evolutionary diversity, ecosystem function and the response of tropical forests to global change.