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Slik, J W Ferry Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor Aiba, Shin-Ichiro Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia Alves, Luciana F Ashton, Peter Balvanera, Patricia Bastian, Meredith L Bellingham, Peter J van den Berg, Eduardo
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The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting of 657,630 trees belonging to 11,371 species, we use a fitted value of Fisher's alpha and an approx...
Cooper, Declan L. M. Lewis, Simon L. Sullivan, Martin J. P. Prado, Paulo I. ter Steege, Hans Barbier, Nicolas Slik, Ferry Sonké, Bonaventure Ewango, Corneille E. N. Adu-Bredu, Stephen
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Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we inve...
