Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Timothy J. Killeen,William F. Laurance,Carlos A. Peres,Juan Ernesto Guevara,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Carolina V. Castilho,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos,Luiz de Souza Coelho,William E. Magnusson,Oliver L. 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,Juan Carlos Montero,Ted R. Feldpausch,Ted R. Feldpausch,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya,Charles E. Zartman,Bonifacio Mostacedo,Rodolfo Vasquez,Rafael L. Assis,Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros,Marcelo F. Simon,Ana Andrade,José Luís Camargo,Susan G. Laurance,Henrique E. M. Nascimento,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben-Hur Marimon,Flávia R. C. Costa,Natalia Targhetta,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Roel J. W. Brienen,Hernán Castellanos,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Hugo Mogollón,Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade,A C Gerardo Aymard,James A. Comiskey,Gabriel Damasco,Nállarett Dávila,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz,Alberto Vincentini,Thaise Emilio,Thaise Emilio,Carolina Levis,Juliana Schietti,Priscila Souza,Alfonso Alonso,Francisco Dallmeier,Leandro Valle Ferreira,David A. Neill,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Luzmila Arroyo,Fernanda Carvalho,Fernanda Coelho de Souza,Dário Dantas do Amaral,Rogério Gribel,Bruno Garcia Luize,M. P. Pansonato,Eduardo Martins Venticinque,Paul V. A. Fine,Marisol Toledo,Christopher Baraloto,Christopher Baraloto,Carlos Cerón,Julien Engel,Terry W. Henkel,E. M. Jimenez,Paul J. M. Maas,Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora,Pascal Petronelli,Juan David Cardenas Revilla,Marcos Silveira,Juliana Stropp,Raquel Thomas-Caesar,Timothy R. Baker,Doug Daly,Marcos Ríos Paredes,Naara Ferreira da Silva,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Peter M. Jørgensen,Jochen Schöngart,Miles R. 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,Agustín Rudas,Ademir R. Ruschell,Natalino Silva,César I.A. Vela,Vincent A. Vos,Egleé L. Zent,Stanford Zent,Ángela Cano,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,José Ferreira Ramos,Rodrigo Sierra,Milton Tirado,Maria Natalia Umaña Medina,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Corine Vriesendorp,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Cláudia 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 Hernández,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,William Milliken,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Susamar Pansini,Daniela Pauletto,Freddy Ramirez Arevalo,Adeilza Felipe Sampaio,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra +163 more
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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