Authors
Hans Ter Steege, Nigel CA Pitman, Daniel Sabatier, Christopher Baraloto, Rafael P Salomão, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Oliver L Phillips, Carolina V Castilho, William E Magnusson, Jean-François Molino, Abel Monteagudo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Juan Carlos Montero, Ted R Feldpausch, Eurídice N Honorio Coronado, Tim J Killeen, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rodolfo Vasquez, Rafael L Assis, John Terborgh, Florian Wittmann, Ana Andrade, William F Laurance, Susan GW Laurance, Beatriz S Marimon, Ben-Hur Marimon Jr, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Iêda Leão Amaral, Roel Brienen, Hernán Castellanos, Dairon Cárdenas López, Joost F Duivenvoorden, Hugo F Mogollón, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz, Flávia Costa, Thaise Emilio, Carolina Levis, Juliana Schietti, Priscila Souza, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Alvaro Javier Duque Montoya, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Rogerio Gribel, Paul VA Fine, Carlos A Peres, Marisol Toledo, Gerardo A Aymard C, Tim R Baker, Carlos Cerón, Julien Engel, Terry W Henkel, Paul Maas, Pascal Petronelli, Juliana Stropp, Charles Eugene Zartman, Doug Daly, David Neill, Marcos Silveira, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Jerome Chave, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Peter Møller Jørgensen, Alfredo Fuentes, Jochen Schöngart, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Anthony Di Fiore, Eliana M Jimenez, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas, Tinde R Van Andel, Patricio Von Hildebrand, Bruce Hoffman, Eglée L Zent, Yadvinder Malhi, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R Ruschell, Natalino Silva, Vincent Vos, Stanford Zent, Alexandre A Oliveira, Angela Cano Schutz, Therany Gonzales, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, María Natalia Umaña Medina, Geertje van Der Heijden, César IA Vela, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Corine Vriesendorp, Ophelia Wang, Kenneth R Young, Claudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Cid Ferreira, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N Alexiades, Lionel Hernandez, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, William Milliken, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Daniela Pauletto, Elvis Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Kyle G Dexter, Ken Feeley, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Miles R Silman
Publication date
2013/10/18
Journal
Science
Volume
342
Issue
6156
Pages
1243092
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
Introduction
Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns. To overcome this obstacle, we compiled and standardized species-level data on more than half a million trees in 1170 plots sampling all major lowland forest types to explore patterns of commonness, rarity, and richness.
Methods
The ~6-million-km2 Amazonian lowlands were divided into 1° cells, and mean tree density was estimated for each cell by using a loess regression model that included no environmental data but had its basis exclusively in the geographic location of tree plots. A similar model, allied with a bootstrapping exercise to quantify sampling error, was used to generate estimated Amazon-wide abundances of the 4962 valid species in the …
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