TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
AU - Steege, Hans Ter
AU - Pitman, Nigel C.A.
AU - Killeen, Timothy J.
AU - Laurance, William F.
AU - Peres, Carlos A.
AU - Guevara, Juan Ernesto
AU - Salomão, Rafael P.
AU - Castilho, Carolina V.
AU - Amaral, Iêda Leão
AU - De Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia
AU - De Souza Coelho, Luiz
AU - Magnusson, William E.
AU - Phillips, Oliver L.
AU - De Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes
AU - De Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo
AU - Irume, Mariana Victória
AU - Martins, Maria Pires
AU - Molino, Jean François
AU - Sabatier, Daniel
AU - Wittmann, Florian
AU - López, Dairon Cárdenas
AU - Da Silva Guimarães, José Renan
AU - Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo
AU - Vargas, Percy Núñez
AU - Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
AU - Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa
AU - Terborgh, John
AU - Casula, Katia Regina
AU - Montero, Juan Carlos
AU - Feldpausch, Ted R.
AU - Coronado, Euridice N.Honorio
AU - Montoya, Alvaro Javier Duque
AU - Zartman, Charles Eugene
AU - Mostacedo, Bonifacio
AU - Vasquez, Rodolfo
AU - Assis, Rafael L.
AU - Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante
AU - Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
AU - Andrade, Ana
AU - Camargo, José Luís
AU - Laurance, Susan G.W.
AU - Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça
AU - Marimon, Beatriz S.
AU - Marimon, Ben Hur
AU - Costa, Flávia
AU - Targhetta, Natalia
AU - Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
AU - Brienen, Roel
AU - Castellanos, Hernán
AU - Hoffman, Bruce
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/11
Y1 - 2015/11
N2 - Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict that most of the world's >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century.
AB - Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict that most of the world's >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century.
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U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.1500936
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.1500936
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978381006
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 1
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
IS - 10
M1 - 1500936
ER -