Cláudia Baider

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: Analysis of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data indicates that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first comprehensive spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density in Amazonian rainforests, based on the largest-yet compilation of forest inventories and bolstered by a spatial interpolation technique that allows them to estimate diversity and density in areas that have never been inventoried.

TL;DR: Without management, intensively harvested populations will succumb to a process of senescence and demographic collapse, threatening this cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy.

TL;DR: This study presents data on the population density, spatial distribution, and seed dispersal ecology of Brazilnut trees at a pristine stand located within the Kayap6 Indian Area of southeastern Amazonia, Para, Brazil and suggests that, once edaphic and climatic conditions are suitable, the highly contagious spatial distiibution of Bertholletia trees at the landscape level can be largely affected by the quantitatively domiinant effect of short-distance dispersal by caviomorph rodents