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

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Hans ter Steege Nigel C. A. Pitman Timothy J. Killeen Susan G. W. Laurance Carlos A. Peres and 95 more

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare not often incorporated into land-use policy conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical projected deforestation to show that at least 36% up 57% all tree likely qualify as globally threatened under International Union Conservation Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number on Earth by 22%. trends observed in Amazonia apply trees throughout...

10.1126/sciadv.1500936 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2015-11-06

Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

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Vitor H. F. Gomes Stéphanie D. IJff Niels Raes Iêda Leão do Amaral Rafael P. Salomão and 95 more

Abstract Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) occurrence data, given their huge numbers accessibility. NHCs often spatially biased which may generate inaccuracies SDMs. Here, we test how the of predictions relates to a spatial abundance model, based on large plot dataset for Amazonian tree species, using inverse distance weighting (IDW). We also propose new pipeline...

10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1 article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2018-01-11

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia

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Vinícius Peripato Carolina Levis Guido A. Moreira Dani Gamerman Hans ter Steege and 95 more

Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across basin, 24 previously undetected pre-Columbian earthworks beneath forest canopy. Modeled distribution abundance large-scale archaeological sites Amazonia suggest that between 10,272 23,648 remain be discovered most will found in southwest. also...

10.1126/science.ade2541 article EN Science 2023-10-06

One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains

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John Ethan Householder Florian Wittmann Jochen Schöngart María Teresa Fernández Piedade Wolfgang J. Junk and 95 more

Abstract Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding their species composition how this may differ from surrounding forest types still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin reshape tree communities critical ecosystem functions they underpin. Here we address gap by taking a spatially explicit look at Amazonia-wide patterns tree-species turnover...

10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1 article EN cc-by Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024-03-11

Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale

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Sandra Bibiana Correa Karold V. Coronado-Franco Céline Jézéquel Amanda Cantarute Rodrigues Kristine O. Evans and 95 more

Unlike most rivers globally, nearly all lowland Amazonian have unregulated flow, supporting seasonally flooded floodplain forests. Floodplain forests harbor a unique tree species assemblage adapted to flooding and specialized fauna, including fruit-eating fish that migrate into floodplains, favoring expansive areas. Frugivorous are forest-dependent fauna critical forest regeneration via seed dispersal support commercial artisanal fisheries. We implemented linear mixed effects models...

10.1073/pnas.2414416122 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025-01-13

Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests

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Hans ter Steege Lourens Poorter Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez Claire Fortunel William E. Magnusson and 95 more

Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, seed mass; economics reflecting slow fast returns on investments in nutrients carbon. When assemble communities it is assumed that these are filtered produce community level functional composition. It unknown what main drivers for composition area such as Amazonia....

10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Communications Biology 2025-03-03

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

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Hans ter Steege Terry W. Henkel Nora Helal Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Ben Hur Marimon and 95 more

Abstract Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such “monodominant” from all of main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled occurrence monodominance massive, basin-wide database forest-inventory plots Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing simple defining metric at least half trees ≥ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, found only few occurrences and phenomenon was not...

10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9 article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2019-09-25

Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities

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Bruno Garcia Luize D.E. Bauman Hans ter Steege Clarisse Palma‐Silva Iêda Leão do Amaral and 95 more

Abstract Aim Amazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments dispersed widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, should not be strongly associated with either geographic regions or forest types. Location Amazonia. Taxon Angiosperms (Magnoliids; Monocots; Eudicots). Methods Data for the abundance of 5082 in...

10.1111/jbi.14816 article EN cc-by Journal of Biogeography 2024-02-17

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

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Hans ter Steege Nigel C. A. Pitman Iêda Leão do Amaral Luiz de Souza Coêlho Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos and 95 more

Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped species-diversity and species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, investigated drivers for diversity richness. only location, stratified by type, as predictor, our spatial model, to best of knowledge, provides most accurate map in Amazonia date, explaining approximately 70% species-richness. Large soil-forest combinations determine a significant percentage variation alpha-diversity Amazonian...

10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6 article EN cc-by Communications Biology 2023-11-08

Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates

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Diego F. Correa Pablo R. Stevenson María Natalia Umaña Luiz de Souza Coêlho Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho and 95 more

Abstract Aim To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in distribution of most common tree dispersal modes Amazonia (endozoochory, synzoochory, anemochory hydrochory). We examined if proportional abundance these could be explained by availability agents (disperser‐availability hypothesis) and/or resources for constructing zoochorous fruits (resource‐availability hypothesis). Time period Tree‐inventory plots established between 1934 2019. Major taxa studied Trees with a...

10.1111/geb.13596 article EN Global Ecology and Biogeography 2022-10-24

Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

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Edwin Pos Luiz de Souza Coêlho Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho Rafael P. Salomão Iêda Leão do Amaral and 95 more

Abstract In a time of rapid global change, the question what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains priority for understanding complex dynamics ecosystems. The constrained maximization information entropy provides framework such systems by quantitative analysis important constraints via predictions using least biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two thousand hectares Amazonian tree inventories across seven forest types and thirteen functional traits,...

10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2023-02-17

The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora

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Bruno Garcia Luize Hanna Tuomisto Robin Ekelschot Kyle G. Dexter Iêda Leão do Amaral and 95 more

10.1038/s42003-024-06937-5 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Communications Biology 2024-10-02

Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa

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Pablo Sanchez‐Martinez Kyle G. Dexter Freddie C. Draper Christopher Baraloto Iêda Leão do Amaral and 95 more

Abstract Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, survival, but the degree phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe variability strategies involving leaf, demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across Amazon Region, quantify signal their relationships. aligned with variables along two main axes variation. The first axis represents coordination leaf describing resource uptake use,...

10.1111/1365-2435.14700 article EN cc-by Functional Ecology 2024-11-28

Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

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Edwin Pos Luiz de Souza Coêlho Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho Rafael P. Salomão Iêda Leão do Amaral and 95 more

Abstract In a time of rapid global change, the question what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains priority for understanding complex dynamics ecosystems. The constrained maximization information entropy provides framework such systems by quantitative analysis important constraints via predictions using least biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two thousand hectares Amazonian tree inventories across seven forest types and thirteen functional traits,...

10.1101/2021.03.31.437717 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021-04-01

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