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Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

Hans ter Steege ¹ Paulo Inácio Prado ² Renato a F de Lima Edwin Pos ³ Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho Rafael P Salomão ⁴ Ieda Amaral ⁵ Francisca Dionizia de Almeida Matos ⁶ Carolina Castilho ⁷ Oliver Phillips ⁸ Juan Ernesto Guevara Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim Jesus Veiga Dairon Cárdenas López William E Magnusson ⁹ Florian Wittmann ¹⁰ Maria Pires Martins Daniel Sabatier ¹¹ Mariana Victória Irume José Renan Da Silva Guimarães Jean-François Molino ¹¹ Olaf Banki ¹² Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade 18 Nigel C A Pitman 19 José Ferreira Ramos Abel Monteagudo Mendoza Eduardo Martins Venticinque Bruno Garcia Luize Núñez Vargas Thiago Sanna Freire Silva Evlyn Márcia Moraes De Leão Novo Neidiane Farias Costa Reis John Terborgh ¹³ Angelo Gilberto Manzatto Katia Regina Casula Euridice N Honorio Coronado Juan Carlos Montero Alvaro Duque ¹⁴ Flávia R C Costa Nicolás Castaño Arboleda Jochen Schöngart ¹⁵ Charles Eugene Zartman Timothy J Killeen Beatriz S Marimon Ben Hur Marimon-Junior Rodolfo Vasquez ¹⁶ Bonifacio Mostacedo ¹⁷ Layon O Demarchi Ted R Feldpausch Julien Engel ¹¹ Pascal Petronelli ¹⁸ Chris Baraloto ¹⁸ Rafael L Assis Hernán Castellanos ¹⁹ Marcelo Simon ²⁰ Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros Adriano Quaresma Susan Laurance ²¹ Lorena M Rincón Ana Andrade ⁶ Thaiane R Sousa José Luís Camargo 42 Juliana Schietti ⁶ William F Laurance Helder Lima de Queiroz Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento Maria Celeste Lopes ²² Emanuelle de Sousa Farias José Leonardo Lima Magalhães Roel Brienen ²³ Gerardo A. Aymard ²⁴ C 49 Juan David Cardenas Revilla Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra 50 Pablo R Stevenson yuri Oliveira Feitosa 52 Joost F Duivenvoorden Hugo F Mogollón Alejandro Araujo-Murakami ²⁵ Leandro Valle Ferreira José Lozada ²⁶ James A Comiskey José Julio de Toledo Gabriel Damasco ²⁷ Nallarett Dávila ²⁸ Aline Lopes Roosevelt Garcia-Villacorta ²⁹ Freddie Draper Alberto Vicentini Fernando Cornejo Valverde ³⁰ Jon Lloyd ³¹ Vitor H F Gomes David Neill ³² Alfonso Alonso ³³ Francisco Dallmeier ³⁴ Fernanda Coelho de Souza ²¹ Rogério Gribel ³⁵ Luzmila Arroyo ²⁵ Fernanda Antunes Carvalho Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar Dário Dantas Do Amaral Marcelo Petratti Pansonato Kenneth J Feeley Erika Berenguer ³⁶ Paul V A Fine 60 Marcelino Guedes ³⁷ Jos Barlow ³⁶ Joice Ferreira 48 Boris Villa Maria Mc Cristina ³⁸ Peñuela Mora Eliana Jimenez ³⁹ Juan Licona ⁴⁰ Carlos Cerón ⁴¹ Raquel Thomas ⁴² Paul Maas ⁴³ Marcos Silveira ⁴⁴ Terry W Henkel ⁴⁵ Juliana Stropp ¹ Marcos Ríos Paredes 85 Kyle G Dexter Doug Daly ⁴⁶ Tim R Baker Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco ⁴⁷ William Milliken ⁴⁸ Toby Pennington J. Tello ²⁹ José Luis ⁴⁹ Marcelo Pena Carlos A Peres 92 Bente Klitgaard Alfredo Fuentes ⁵⁰ Miles R Silman Anthony Di Fiore 96 Patricio von Hildebrand ⁵¹ Jérôme Chave ⁵² Tinde R van Andel Renato Richard Hilário Juan Fernando Phillips Gonzalo Rivas-Torres ⁵³ Janaína Costa Noronha Adriana Prieto ³⁹ Therany Gonzales ⁵⁴ Rainiellene De Sá Carpanedo George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales Ricardo Zárate Gómez Domingos De Jesus Rodrigues Egleé L Zent Ademir R Ruschel

1 Institute of Environmental Biology, Section Plant Ecology and Biodiversity,

2 Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo

3 Utrecht University [Utrecht]

4 MPEG - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil]

5 Projeto TEAM-Manaus

6 INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia

7 Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal de Roraima

8 Ecology and Global Change, School of Geography

9 Coordenac Bao de Pesquisas em Ecologia

10 Department of Biochemistry [Mainz]

11 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations

12 IBED - Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics

13 Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment

14 Departamento de Ciencias Forestales

15 MPIC - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

16 Missouri Botanical Garden

17 Universidad Autonoma Gabriel René Moreno

18 UMR ECOFOG - Ecologie des forêts de Guyane

19 Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana

20 Genetic resources and biotechnology

21 Chercheur indépendant

22 CNC - Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC)

23 Sch Geog

24 Herbario Universitario PORT

25 UAGRM - Universidad Autonoma Gabriel René Moreno

26 LIS - Laboratoire Interfaces Sensorielles

DIASI - Département Intelligence Ambiante et Systèmes Interactifs : DRT/LIST/DIASI

27 Department of Integrative Biology

28 IB - Department of Integrative Biology [Berkeley]

29 University of Edinburgh

30 Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program [Madre de Dios]

31 MPI-BGC - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

32 Universidad Estatal Amazonica

33 Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

34 Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute,

35 Coordenacao Biodiversidade

36 Lancaster Environment Centre

37 Embrapa Amapa

38 CREPAL - CREPAL - Centre de recherches sur les pays lusophones - EA 3421

39 Universidad Nacional de Colombia

40 IBIF - Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal

41 Herbario Nacional del Ecuador

42 Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development

43 Department of Botany

44 UFAC - Universidade Federal do Acre

45 HSU - Humboldt State University

46 NYBG - New York Botanical Garden

47 UNSAAC - Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco

48 Royal Botanic Garden , Kew

49 Faculté de Pharmacie

50 Herbario Nacional de Bolivia

51 Fundacion Puerto Rastrojo

52 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique

53 Universidad San Francisco de Quito (EQUATEUR)

54 Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation

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.

Keywords : Species richness Amazonian forest

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Life Sciences [q-bio] / Biodiversity / Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy

Life Sciences [q-bio] / Ecology, environment / Ecosystems

Life Sciences [q-bio] / Vegetal Biology / Botanics

Environmental Sciences / Biodiversity and Ecology

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