Title: | Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora |
Authors: | ter Steege, H. Prado, Paulo I. Lima, Renato A.Fde Pos, Edwin T. Coelho, Luiz Souza de Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade Salomão, Rafael Paiva Amaral, Iêda Leão do Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Castilho, Carolina Volkmer Phillips, Oliver L. Amaral, Dário Dantas do Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti Feeley, Kenneth James Berenguer, Erika V.A., Fine, Paul Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro Barlow, Jos Ferreira, Joice Nunes Villa, Boris Cristina, Peñuela Mora, Maria Guevara, Juan Ernesto Jiménez, E. M. Licona, Juan Carlos Cerón, Carlos E. Thomas, Raquel S. Maas, Paul J.M. Silveira, Marcos Henkel, Terry W. Stropp, Juliana Paredes, Marcos Ríos Dexter, Kyle Graham Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Daly, Doug Baker, Timothy R. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau Milliken, William Pennington, Toby Sebastián Tello, J. Pena, José Luis Marcelo Peres, Carlos A. Klitgaard, Bente Bang NAO ENCONTRADO Cárdenas-López, Dairon Silman, Miles R. Di Fiore, Anthony von Hildebrand, Patricio Chave, Jérôme van Andel, Tinde Hilário, Renato Richard Phillips, Juan Fernando Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo F. Noronha, Janaína Costa Prieto, Adriana Magnusson, William Ernest Gonzales, Therany Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellene de Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gómez, Ricardo Zárate Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus Zent, Eglée L. Ruschel, Ademir Roberto Vos, Vincent A. Fonty, Émile Junqueira, André Braga Wittmann, Florian Karl Doza, Hilda Paulette Dávila Hoffman, Bruce Zent, Stanford Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques Malhi, Yadvinder Singh Bonates, Luiz Carlos de Matos Miranda, Ires Paula de Andrade Silva, Natalino Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues Vela, César I.A. Martins, Maria Pires Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite Rudas, Agustín Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss Umaña, María Natalia Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina Van Der Heijden, Geertje M.F. Young, Kenneth R. Tirado, Milton Correa, Diego F. Sierra, Rodrigo Sabatier, Daniel Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Rocha, Maira Torre, Emilio Vilanova Wang, Ophelia Oliveira, Alexandre A. Kalamandeen, Michelle Vriesendorp, Corine F. Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma Holmgren, Milena Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade Irume, Mariana Victoria Galbraith, David R. Flores, Bernardo Monteiro Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni Cano, Ángela Reategui, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Mesones, Italo Baider, Claudia Mendoza, Casimiro Zagt, Roderick J. Urrego-Giraldo, Ligia Estela Guimarães, José Renan da Silva Ferreira, Cid A. Villarroel, Daniel Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo Farfan-Rios, William Farfan-Rios, William Casas, Luisa Fernanda Cárdenas, Sasha Balslev, Henrik Torres-Lezama, Armando Alexiades, Miguel N. Molino, Jean François García-Cabrera, Karina Valenzuela, Luis Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H. Ramírez Arévalo, Freddy R. Hernández, Lionel Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe Pansini, Susamar Cuenca, Walter Palacios Oliveira, Eddie Lenza de Pauletto, Daniela Bánki, Olaf S. Levesley, Aurora Melgaço, Karina Pickavance, Georgia C. Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez Pitman, Nigel C.A. Ramos, José Ferreira Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel Venticinque, Eduardo Martins Luize, Bruno Garcia Núñez-Vargas, Percy Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire Moraes Novo, Evlyn Márcia Leão de Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa Terborgh, John W. Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto Casula, Katia Regina Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. Montero, Juan Carlos Duque M, Alvaro J. Costa, Flávia Regina Capellotto Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño Schöngart, Jochen Zartman, Charles Eugene Killeen, Timothy J. Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur Vásquez, Rodolfo V. Mostacedo, Bonifacio Demarchi, Layon Oreste Feldpausch, Ted R. Engel, Julien Pétronelli, Pascal Baraloto, Christopher Assis, Rafael L. Castellanos, Hernán Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante Quaresma, Adriano Costa Laurance, Susan G.W. Rincón, Lorena M. Andrade, Ana C.S. Sousa, Thaiane R. Camargo, José Luís Campana Schietti, Juliana Laurance, William F. Queiroz, Helder Lima de Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Lopes, Maria Aparecida Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa Magalh?es, Jos? Leonardo Lima Brienen, Roel J.W. Aymard-C, Gerardo A. Revilla, Juan David Cardenas Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia Cintra, Bruno Bar?ante Ladvocat Stevenson, Pablo R. Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira Duivenvoorden, Joost F. Mogollón, Hugo F. Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro Ferreira, Leandro Valle Lozada, José Rafael Comiskey, James A. Toledo, José Julio de Damasco, Gabriel Dávila, Nállarett Lopes, Aline García-Villacorta, Roosevelt Draper, Frederick C.H. Vicentini, Alberto Cornejo-Valverde, Fernando Lloyd, Jon Gomes, Vitor H.F. Neill, David A. Alonso, Alfonso Dallmeier, Francisco Souza, Fernanda Coelho de Gribel, Rogério Arroyo, Luzmila P. Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes Aguiar, Daniel Praia Portela de |
Keywords: | Adult averaging Flora Forest Population Abundance |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Scientific Reports |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 10, Número 1 |
Abstract: | Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spatial aggregation to an extended database of forest plots with up-to-date taxonomy. We show that the species abundance distribution of Amazonia is best approximated by a logseries with aggregated individuals, where aggregation increases with rarity. By averaging several methods to estimate total richness, we confirm that over 15,000 tree species are expected to occur in Amazonia. We also show that using ten times the number of plots would result in an increase to just ~50% of those 15,000 estimated species. To get a more complete sample of all tree species, rigorous field campaigns may be needed but the number of trees in Amazonia will remain an estimate for years to come. © 2020, The Author(s). |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1038/s41598-020-66686-3 |
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