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SCIENCE
Volume 353, Issue 6306, Pages 1383-1387Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5080
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- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by a Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant [IN-074]
- U.K. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/I028122/1]
- Colciencias Ph.D. scholarship [529]
- Synthesys Programme [GBTAF-2824]
- NSF [NSF 1118340, 1118369]
- Instituto Humboldt (IAvH)-Red colombiana de investigacion y monitoreo en bosque seco
- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) [CRN2-021]
- NSF GEO [0452325]
- Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/I027797/1, NE/I028122/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/I028122/1, NE/I027797/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Seasonally dry tropical forests are distributed across Latin America and the Caribbean and are highly threatened, with less than 10% of their original extent remaining in many countries. Using 835 inventories covering 4660 species of woody plants, we show marked floristic turnover among inventories and regions, which may be higher than in other neotropical biomes, such as savanna. Such high floristic turnover indicates that numerous conservation areas across many countries will be needed to protect the full diversity of tropical dry forests. Our results provide a scientific framework within which national decision-makers can contextualize the floristic significance of their dry forest at a regional and continental scale.
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