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

ter Steege, Hans, Pitman, Nigel C.A., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Peres, Carlos A., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Salomão, Rafael P., Castilho, Carolina V., Amaral, Ieda, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, Magnusson, William E., Phillips, Oliver L., de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes, de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Wittmann, Florian, López, Dairon Cárdenas, da Silva Guimaraes, José Renan, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa, Terborgh, John, Casula, Karia Regina, Montero, Juan Carlos, Feldpausch, Ted R., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Montoya, A.J.D., Zartman, Charles Eugene, Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Vasquez, Rodolfo, Assis, Rafael L., Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Andrade, Ana, Camargo, José L.C., Laurance, Susan G.W., Nascimento, H.E.M., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon Junior, Ben Hur, Costa, Flávia R.C., Targhetta, Natalia, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Brienen, Roel J.W., Castellanos, Hernán, Duivenvoorden, Joost, Mogollon, Hugo, Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Aymard C., Gerardo A., Comiskey, James A., Damasco, Gabriel, Dávila, Nállarett, Garcia-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Diaz, Pablo Roberto Stevenson, Vincentini, Alberto, Emilio, Thaise, Levis, Carolina, Schietti, Juliana, Souza, Priscila, Alonso, Alfonso, Dallmeier, Francisco, Ferreira, Leandro, Neill, David, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arroyo, Luzmila, Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes, Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Amaral, Dário Dantas do, Gribel, Rogerio, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Pansonato, Marcelo Petrati, Venticinque, Eduardo, Fine, Paul, Toledo, Marisol, Baraloto, Christopher, Ceron, Carlos, Engel, Julian, Henkel, Terry W., Jimenez, Eliana M., Maas, P., Mora, Maria Cristina Peñuela, Petronelli, Pascal, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, Baker, Tim R., Daly, Doug, Paredes, Marcos Ríos, da Silva, Naara Ferreira, Fuentes, A., Jørgensen, Peter Møller, Schöngart, Jochen, Silman, Miles R., Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Di Fiore, Anthony, Phillips, Juan, van Andel, Tinde R., von Hildebrand, P., Barbosa, E.M., de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos, de Castro, D., de Sousa Farias, E., Gonzales, Therany, Guillaumet, Jean-Louis, Hoffman, Bruce, Malhi, Yadvinder, de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula, Prieto, Adriana, Rudas, Agustin, Ruschell, Ademir R., Silva, Natalino, Vela, Cesar, Vos, Vincent A., Zent, Eglée L., Zent, Stanford, Cano, Angela, Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade, Oliveira, Alexandre A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Ramos, José Ferreira, Sierra, Rodrigo, Tirado, Milton, Medina, Maria Natalia Umaña, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., Torre, Emilio Vilanova, Vriesendorp, Corine, Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Baider, Claudia, Balslev, Henrik, de Castro, Natalia, Farfan-Rios, William, Ferreira, Cid, Mendoza, Casimiro, Mesones, Italo, Torres-Lezama, Armando, Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego, Villarroel, Daniel, Zagt, Roderick J., Alexiades, Miguel, Garcia-Cabrera, Karina, Hernandez, Lionel, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Milliken, William, Cuenca, Walter Palacios, Pansini, Susamar, Pauletto, Daniela, Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez, Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe, Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H. and Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela (2015) Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances, 1 (10). e1500936/1-e1500936/10. ISSN 2375-2548

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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 thatmost 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.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/765812
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Geography
Identification Number: 10.1126/sciadv.1500936
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2017 12:20
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:22
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/45016

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