Journal
SCIENCE
Volume 342, Issue 6156, Pages 325-+Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1243092
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- Alberta Mennega Stichting
- ALCOA Suriname
- Banco de la Republica
- Center for Agricultural Research in Suriname
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (Plano Nacional de Pos-Graduacao)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvovimento Cientifico e Tecnologico of Brazil (CNPq) projects Programa de Pesquisas Ecologicas de Longa Duracao (PELD) [558069/2009-6]
- Programa de Apoio a Nucleos de Excelencia da Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (PRONEX-FAPEAM) [1600/2006]
- Areas Umidas
- MAUA
- PELD [403792/2012-6]
- PPBio
- CENBAM
- Universal [479599/2008-4, 307807-2009-6]
- Fundacao de Amparo A Pesquisa Do Estado Do Amazonas (APEAM) projects [DCR/2006]
- Hidroveg
- FAPESP
- PRONEX
- CNPq
- Colciencias
- Duke University
- Ecopetrol
- FEPIM [044/2003]
- Field Museum
- Conservation International/DC (TEAM/INPA Manuas), Gordon
- Betty Moore Foundation
- Guyana Forestry Commission
- Investissement d'Avenir grant of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (Centre d'Etude de la Biodiversite Amazonienne) [ANR-10-LABX-0025]
- Margaret Mee Amazon Trust
- Miquel fonds
- National Geographic Society [7754-04, 8047-06]
- Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research WOTRO grants [WB85- 335, W84-581]
- Primate Conservation Incorporated
- French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development
- Shell Prospecting and Development Peru
- Smithsonian Institution's Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program
- Stichting het van Eeden-fonds
- the Body Shop
- Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador
- TROBIT
- Tropenbos International
- NSF [NSF-0743457, NSF-0101775]
- USAID
- Variety Woods Guyana
- WWF-Brazil
- WWF-Guianas
- XIIeme Contrat de Plan Etat Region-Guyane (French Government and European Union)
- European Union
- UK Natural Environment Research Council
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- U.S. National Geographic Society
- European Research Council Advanced Grant
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/I027797/1, NE/B503384/1, NE/B504630/1, NE/I021160/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0918591] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering
- Office Of The Director [1103573] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NERC [NE/I021160/1, NE/I027797/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The vast extent of the Amazon Basin has historically restricted the study of its tree communities to the local and regional scales. Here, we provide empirical data on the commonness, rarity, and richness of lowland tree species across the entire Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), collected in 1170 tree plots in all major forest types. Extrapolations suggest that Amazonia harbors roughly 16,000 tree species, of which just 227 (1.4%) account for half of all trees. Most of these are habitat specialists and only dominant in one or two regions of the basin. We discuss some implications of the finding that a small group of species-less diverse than the North American tree flora-accounts for half of the world's most diverse tree community.
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