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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora.

ABSTRACT: Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and investigated drivers for diversity and richness. Using only location, stratified by forest type, as predictor, our spatial model, to the best of our knowledge, provides the most accurate map of tree diversity in Amazonia to date, explaining approximately 70% of the tree diversity and species-richness. Large soil-forest combinations determine a significant percentage of the variation in tree species-richness and tree alpha-diversity in Amazonian forest-plots. We suggest that the size and fragmentation of these systems drive their large-scale diversity patterns and hence local diversity. A model not using location but cumulative water deficit, tree density, and temperature seasonality explains 47% of the tree species-richness in the terra-firme forest in Amazonia. Over large areas across Amazonia, residuals of this relationship are small and poorly spatially structured, suggesting that much of the residual variation may be local. The Guyana Shield area has consistently negative residuals, showing that this area has lower tree species-richness than expected by our models. We provide extensive plot meta-data, including tree density, tree alpha-diversity and tree species-richness results and gridded maps at 0.1-degree resolution.

SUBMITTER: Ter Steege H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10632362 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora.

Ter Steege Hans H Pitman Nigel C A NCA do Amaral Iêda Leão IL de Souza Coelho Luiz L de Almeida Matos Francisca Dionízia FD de Andrade Lima Filho Diógenes D Salomão Rafael P RP Wittmann Florian F Castilho Carolina V CV Guevara Juan Ernesto JE Veiga Carim Marcelo de Jesus MJ Phillips Oliver L OL Magnusson William E WE Sabatier Daniel D Revilla Juan David Cardenas JDC Molino Jean-François JF Irume Mariana Victória MV Martins Maria Pires MP da Silva Guimarães José Renan JR Ramos José Ferreira JF Bánki Olaf S OS Piedade Maria Teresa Fernandez MTF Cárdenas López Dairon D Rodrigues Domingos de Jesus DJ Demarchi Layon O LO Schöngart Jochen J Almeida Everton José EJ Barbosa Luciane Ferreira LF Cavalheiro Larissa L Dos Santos Márcia Cléia Vilela MCV Luize Bruno Garcia BG de Leão Novo Evlyn Márcia Moraes EMM Vargas Percy Núñez PN Silva Thiago Sanna Freire TSF Venticinque Eduardo Martins EM Manzatto Angelo Gilberto AG Reis Neidiane Farias Costa NFC Terborgh John J Casula Katia Regina KR Honorio Coronado Euridice N EN Monteagudo Mendoza Abel A Montero Juan Carlos JC Costa Flávia R C FRC Feldpausch Ted R TR Quaresma Adriano Costa AC Castaño Arboleda Nicolás N Zartman Charles Eugene CE Killeen Timothy J TJ Marimon Beatriz S BS Marimon-Junior Ben Hur BH Vasquez Rodolfo R Mostacedo Bonifacio B Assis Rafael L RL Baraloto Chris C do Amaral Dário Dantas DD Engel Julien J Petronelli Pascal P Castellanos Hernán H de Medeiros Marcelo Brilhante MB Simon Marcelo Fragomeni MF Andrade Ana A Camargo José Luís JL Laurance William F WF Laurance Susan G W SGW Maniguaje Rincón Lorena L Schietti Juliana J Sousa Thaiane R TR de Sousa Farias Emanuelle E Lopes Maria Aparecida MA Magalhães José Leonardo Lima JLL Nascimento Henrique Eduardo Mendonça HEM de Queiroz Helder Lima HL Aymard C Gerardo A GA Brienen Roel R Stevenson Pablo R PR Araujo-Murakami Alejandro A Baker Tim R TR Cintra Bruno Barçante Ladvocat BBL Feitosa Yuri Oliveira YO Mogollón Hugo F HF Duivenvoorden Joost F JF Peres Carlos A CA 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Communications biology 20231108 1

Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and investigated drivers for diversity and richness. Using only location, stratified by forest type, as predictor, our spatial model, to the best of our knowledge, provides the most accurate map of tree diversity in Amazonia to date, explaining approximately 70% of the tree diversity and species-richness. Large soil-fores ...[more]

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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora.

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