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Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree sp...
Steege, Hans Ter; Pitman, Nigel C.A.; Killeen, Timothy J.; Laurance, William F.; Peres, Carlos A.; Guevara, Juan Ernesto; Salomão, Rafael PaivaEstimates 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 ...
Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abun...
Gomes, Vitor H.F.; IJff, Stéphanie D.; Raes, Niels; Amaral, Iêda Leão do; Salomão, Rafael Paiva; Coelho, Luiz Souza deSpecies distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) as occurrence data, given their huge numbers and accessibility. NHCs are often spatially biased which may generate inaccuracies in SDMs. Here, we test how the distribution of NHCs and MaxEnt predictions relates to a spatial abundance model, based on ...
Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests
ter Steege, H.; Henkel, Terry W.; Helal, Nora; Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes; Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur; Huth, Andreas; Groeneveld, Jürgen J.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” forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing a simple defining metric ...