Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests Crystal N. H. McMichael, Mark B. Bush, Hans ter Steege, Dolores R. Piperno, William D. Gosling, Majoi N. Nascimento, Umberto Lombardo, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Carolina V. Castilho, Florian Wittmann, Juan Ernesto Guevara-Andino, William E. Magnusson, Rafael P. Salomão, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, José Ferreira Ramos, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Juan Carlos Montero, Jochen Schöngart, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Charles Eugene Zartman, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, John Terborgh, Layon O. Demarchi, Rafael L. Assis, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiro, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Ted R. Feldpausch, Timothy J. Killeen, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Tim R. Baker, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Roel Brienen, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Helder Lima de Queiroz, James A. Comiskey, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Gabriel Damasco, Freddie C. Draper, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Paul V. A. Fine, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Luzmila Arroyo, Carlos Cerón, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Doug Daly, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Joice Ferreira, Eliana M. Jimenez, Bente Klitgaard, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Carlos A. Peres, Pablo R. Stevenson, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Toby Pennington, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Patricio von Hildebrand, Janaína Costa Noronha, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Rainiellen de Sá Carpandeo, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Alfredo Fuentes, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Agustín Rudas, J. Sebastián Tello, César I. A. Vela, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Angela Cano, Milena Holmgren, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Maira Rocha, Ademir R. Ruschel, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Miles R. Silman, Natalino Silva, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña, Corine Vriesendorp, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Miguel N. Alexiades, William Farfan-Rios, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, John J. Pipoly, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, José Julio de Toledo, Wegliane Campelo, Terry W. Henkel, Jean-François Molino, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Daniel Sabatier, Alvaro Duque, Daniel Zuleta, Thiago Trindade, Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha, Fernando Ozorio de Almeida, Kenneth J. Feeley Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025 Recent evidence suggests that the ecological footprints of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Amazonia persist in modern forests. Ecological impacts resulting from European colonization c. 1550 CE and the Amazonian Rubber Boom c. 1850 to 1920 CE are largely unexplored but could be important additive influences on forest structure and tree species composition. Using environmental niche models, we show the highest probabilities of pre-Columbian and colonial occupation sites, and hence human-induced ecological influences, occurred in forests along rivers. In many areas, the predicted pre-Columbian and colonial distributions overlap spatially with the potential for superimposed ecological influences. Environmental gradients are known to structure Amazonian vegetation composition, but they are also strong predictors of past human influence, both spatially and temporally. Our comparisons of model outputs with relative abundances of Amazonian tree species suggest that pre-Columbian and colonial-period ecological legacies are associated with modern forest composition.
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests Hans ter Steege, Lourens Poorter, Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Claire Fortunel, William E. Magnusson, Oliver L. Phillips, Edwin Pos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Chris Baraloto, Juan Ernesto Guevara, María-José Endara, Tim R. Baker, Maria Natalia Umaña, Masha van der Sande, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Matt McGlone, Freddie C. Draper, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Florian Wittmann, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Daniel Sabatier, Jean-François Molino, Layon O. Demarchi, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jochen Schöngart, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. Bánki, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Carlos A. Peres, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Joseph E. Hawes, Everton José Almeida, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa, Larissa Cavalheiro, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Cintia Rodrigues De Souza, Marcus Vinicio Neves de Oliveira, Flávia R. C. Costa, Julien Engel, Ted R. Feldpausch, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Flávia Machado Durgante, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Hernán Castellanos, John Ethan Householder, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Gisele Biem Mori, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Caroline C. Vasconcelos, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Roel Brienen, Pâmella Leite de Sousa Assis, Darlene Gris, Karoline Aparecida Felix Ribeiro, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Marcos Rios Paredes, Alberto Vicentini, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, William Nauray Huari, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Janaína Costa Noronha, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, John J. Pipoly, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Joice Ferreira, Maria Julia Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, Kyle G. Dexter, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes Claros, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Luis Torres Montenegro, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Therany Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Tony Mori Vargas, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Riley P. Fortier, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Aurora Levesley, Georgia Pickavance Communications Biology, 2025 Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. When species assemble to communities it is assumed that these spectra are filtered by the environment to produce community level functional composition. It is unknown what are the main drivers for community functional composition in a large area such as Amazonia. We use 13 functional traits, including wood density, seed mass, leaf characteristics, breeding system, nectar production, fruit type, and root characteristics of 812 tree genera (5211 species), and find that they describe two main axes found at the global scale. At community level, the first axis captures not only the 'fast-slow spectrum', but also most size-related traits. Climate and disturbance explain a minor part of this variance compared to soil fertility. Forests on poor soils differ largely in terms of trait values from those on rich soils. Trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production.
The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora Bruno Garcia Luize, Hanna Tuomisto, Robin Ekelschot, Kyle G. Dexter, Iêda L. do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Florian Wittmann, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Oliver L. Phillips, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean-François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Dairon Cárdenas López, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Layon O. Demarchi, Jochen Schöngart, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Flávia R. C. Costa, Ted R. Feldpausch, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Chris Baraloto, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Gisele Biem Mori, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Caroline C. Vasconcelos, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Tim R. Baker, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Freddie C. Draper, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Eliana M. Jimenez, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Janaína Costa Noronha, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Joseph E. Hawes, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, John J. Pipoly, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Maria Julia Ferreira, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Flávia Machado Durgante, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, María José Endara, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Luis Torres Montenegro, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Tony Mori Vargas, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Riley P. Fortier, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Marina Hirota, Clarisse Palma-Silva, Hans ter Steege Communications Biology, 2024 We describe the geographical variation in tree species composition across Amazonian forests and show how environmental conditions are associated with species turnover. Our analyses are based on 2023 forest inventory plots (1 ha) that provide abundance data for a total of 5188 tree species. Within-plot species composition reflected both local environmental conditions (especially soil nutrients and hydrology) and geographical regions. A broader-scale view of species turnover was obtained by interpolating the relative tree species abundances over Amazonia into 47,441 0.1-degree grid cells. Two main dimensions of spatial change in tree species composition were identified. The first was a gradient between western Amazonia at the Andean forelands (with young geology and relatively nutrient-rich soils) and central-eastern Amazonia associated with the Guiana and Brazilian Shields (with more ancient geology and poor soils). The second gradient was between the wet forests of the northwest and the drier forests in southern Amazonia. Isolines linking cells of similar composition crossed major Amazonian rivers, suggesting that tree species distributions are not limited by rivers. Even though some areas of relatively sharp species turnover were identified, mostly the tree species composition changed gradually over large extents, which does not support delimiting clear discrete biogeographic regions within Amazonia.
Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities Bruno Garcia Luize, David Bauman, Hans ter Steege, Clarisse Palma‐Silva, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Florian Wittmann, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Oliver L. Phillips, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean‐François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Dairon Cárdenas López, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Layon O. Demarchi, Jochen Schöngart, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Flávia R. C. Costa, Ted R. Feldpausch, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Chris Baraloto, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Tim R. Baker, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Freddie C. Draper, Roosevelt García‐Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverd, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Eliana M. Jimenez, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Janaína Costa Noronha, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Joseph E. Hawes, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Maria Julia Ferreira, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Flávia Machado Durgante, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, William Millike, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas‐Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Luis Torres Montenegro, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Hirma Ramirez‐Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan‐Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares‐Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia‐Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Kyle G. Dexter Journal of Biogeography, 2024 AimAmazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments and dispersed widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, that lineages should not be strongly associated with either geographic regions or edaphic forest types.LocationAmazonia.TaxonAngiosperms (Magnoliids; Monocots; Eudicots).MethodsData for the abundance of 5082 tree species in 1989 plots were combined with a mega‐phylogeny. We applied evolutionary ordination to assess how phylogenetic composition varies across Amazonia. We used variation partitioning and Moran's eigenvector maps (MEM) to test and quantify the separate and joint contributions of spatial and environmental variables to explain the phylogenetic composition of plots. We tested the indicator value of lineages for geographic regions and edaphic forest types and mapped associations onto the phylogeny.ResultsIn the terra firme and várzea forest types, the phylogenetic composition varies by geographic region, but the igapó and white‐sand forest types retain a unique evolutionary signature regardless of region. Overall, we find that soil chemistry, climate and topography explain 24% of the variation in phylogenetic composition, with 79% of that variation being spatially structured (R2 = 19% overall for combined spatial/environmental effects). The phylogenetic composition also shows substantial spatial patterns not related to the environmental variables we quantified (R2 = 28%). A greater number of lineages were significant indicators of geographic regions than forest types.Main ConclusionNumerous tree lineages, including some ancient ones (>66 Ma), show strong associations with geographic regions and edaphic forest types of Amazonia. This shows that specialization in specific edaphic environments has played a long‐standing role in the evolutionary assembly of Amazonian forests. Furthermore, many lineages, even those that have dispersed across Amazonia, dominate within a specific region, likely because of phylogenetically conserved niches for environmental conditions that are prevalent within regions.
Erratum: Author Correction: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains (Nature ecology & evolution (2024) 8 5 (901-911)) John Ethan Householder, Florian Wittmann, Jochen Schöngart, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Wolfgang J. Junk, Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Layon O. Demarchi, Guilherme de S. Lobo, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Rafael L. Assis, Aline Lopes, Pia Parolin, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina V. Castilho, Juan Ernesto Guevara-Andino, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Oliver L. Phillips, Dairon Cárdenas López, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean-François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Olaf S. Bánki, Carlos A. Peres, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Joseph E. Hawes, Everton José Almeida, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa, Larissa Cavalheiro, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Flávia R. C. Costa, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Ted R. Feldpausch, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Chris Baraloto, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Tim R. Baker, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Janaína Costa Noronha, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Carolina Levis, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, Freddie C. Draper, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Eliana M. Jimenez, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Kyle G. Dexter, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Juan Carlos Licona, Toby Pennington, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, Paul Maas, Edwin Pos, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Thaise Emilio, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Priscila F. Souza, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite-Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Hans ter Steege Nature Ecology Evolution, 2024 In the version of the article initially published, the affiliation of Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse was incorrect and has now been amended to Environmental Sciences Graduate Program-CIAMB, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains John Ethan Householder, Florian Wittmann, Jochen Schöngart, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Wolfgang J. Junk, Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Layon O. Demarchi, Guilherme de S. Lobo, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Rafael L. Assis, Aline Lopes, Pia Parolin, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina V. Castilho, Juan Ernesto Guevara-Andino, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Oliver L. Phillips, Dairon Cárdenas López, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean-François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Olaf S. Bánki, Carlos A. Peres, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Joseph E. Hawes, Everton José Almeida, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa, Larissa Cavalheiro, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Flávia R. C. Costa, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Ted R. Feldpausch, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Chris Baraloto, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Tim R. Baker, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Janaína Costa Noronha, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Carolina Levis, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, Freddie C. Draper, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Eliana M. Jimenez, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Kyle G. Dexter, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Juan Carlos Licona, Toby Pennington, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, Paul Maas, Edwin Pos, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Thaise Emilio, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Priscila F. Souza, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite-Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Hans ter Steege Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2024 Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin. Here we address this gap by taking a spatially explicit look at Amazonia-wide patterns of tree-species turnover and ecological specialization of the region’s floodplain forests. We show that the majority of Amazonian tree species can inhabit floodplains, and about a sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is ecologically specialized on floodplains. The degree of specialization in floodplain communities is driven by regional flood patterns, with the most compositionally differentiated floodplain forests located centrally within the fluvial network and contingent on the most extraordinary flood magnitudes regionally. Our results provide a spatially explicit view of ecological specialization of floodplain forest communities and expose the need for whole-basin hydrological integrity to protect the Amazon’s tree diversity and its function.
Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities Declan L. M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Paulo I. Prado, Hans ter Steege, Nicolas Barbier, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Alfonso Alonso, Christian A. Amani, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Ana Andrade, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Ilondea B. Angoboy, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Cláudia Baider, Timothy R. Baker, Michael Philippe Bessike Balinga, Henrik Balslev, Lindsay F. Banin, Olaf S. Bánki, Chris Baraloto, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Jos Barlow, Jean-Francois Bastin, Hans Beeckman, Serge Begne, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Erika Berenguer, Nicholas Berry, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Jan Bogaert, Bernard Bonyoma, Patrick Boundja, Nils Bourland, Faustin Boyemba Bosela, Fabian Brambach, Roel Brienen, David F. R. P. Burslem, José Luís Camargo, Wegliane Campelo, Angela Cano, Sasha Cárdenas, Dairon Cárdenas López, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Luisa Fernanda Casas, Hernán Castellanos, Carolina V. Castilho, Carlos Cerón, Colin A. Chapman, Jerome Chave, Phourin Chhang, Wanlop Chutipong, George B. Chuyong, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Connie J. Clark, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, James A. Comiskey, David A. Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Diego F. Correa, Flávia R. C. Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Pierre Couteron, Heike Culmsee, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Francisco Dallmeier, Gabriel Damasco, Gilles Dauby, Nállarett Dávila, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Jose Don T. De Alban, Rafael L. de Assis, Charles De Canniere, Thales De Haulleville, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Layon O. Demarchi, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Hazimah Haji Mohammad Din, Mathias I. Disney, Brice Yannick Djiofack, Marie-Noël K. Djuikouo, Tran Van Do, Jean-Louis Doucet, Freddie C. Draper, Vincent Droissart, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Julien Engel, Vittoria Estienne, William Farfan-Rios, Sophie Fauset, Kenneth J. Feeley, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Ted R. Feldpausch, Cid Ferreira, Joice Ferreira, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Christine D. Fletcher, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, Alusine Fofanah, Ernest G. Foli, Émile Fonty, Gabriella M. Fredriksson, Alfredo Fuentes, David Galbraith, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Jefferson S. Hall, Keith C. Hamer, Alan C. Hamilton, David J. Harris, Rhett D. Harrison, Terese B. Hart, Andy Hector, Terry W. Henkel, John Herbohn, Mireille B. N. Hockemba, Bruce Hoffman, Milena Holmgren, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Wannes Hubau, Nobuo Imai, Mariana Victória Irume, Patrick A. Jansen, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Eliana M. Jimenez, Tommaso Jucker, André Braga Junqueira, Michelle Kalamandeen, Narcisse G. Kamdem, Kuswata Kartawinata, Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu, John M. Katembo, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Michael Kessler, Thiri Toe Khaing, Timothy J. Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, Bente Klitgaard, Nicolas Labrière, Yves Laumonier, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Félix Laurent, Tinh Cong Le, Trai Trong Le, Miguel E. Leal, Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo, Aurora Levesley, Moses B. Libalah, Juan Carlos Licona, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Jeremy A. Lindsell, Aline Lopes, Maria Aparecida Lopes, Jon C. Lovett, Richard Lowe, José Rafael Lozada, Xinghui Lu, Nestor K. Luambua, Bruno Garcia Luize, Paul Maas, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, William E. Magnusson, Ni Putu Diana Mahayani, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Asyraf Mansor, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew R Marshall, Maria Pires Martins, Faustin M. Mbayu, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Italo Mesones, Faizah Metali, Vianet Mihindou, Jerome Millet, William Milliken, Hugo F. Mogollón, Jean-François Molino, Mohd. Nizam Mohd. Said, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Sam Moore, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Pantaleo K. T. Munishi, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, David Neill, Reuben Nilus, Janaína Costa Noronha, Laurent Nsenga, Percy Núñez Vargas, Lucas Ojo, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Fidèle Evouna Ondo, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Ekananda Paudel, Daniela Pauletto, Richard G. Pearson, José Luis Marcelo Pena, R. Toby Pennington, Carlos A. Peres, Andrea Permana, Pascal Petronelli, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Juan Fernando Phillips, Oliver L. Phillips, Georgia Pickavance, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Pierre Ploton, Andreas Popelier, John R. Poulsen, Adriana Prieto, Richard B. Primack, Hari Priyadi, Lan Qie, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, José Ferreira Ramos, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, Jan Reitsma, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Terhi Riutta, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Iyan Robiansyah, Maira Rocha, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, M. Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ronderos, Francesco Rovero, Andes H. Rozak, Agustín Rudas, Ervan Rutishauser, Daniel Sabatier, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Ismayadi Samsoedin, Manichanh Satdichanh, Juliana Schietti, Jochen Schöngart, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Naret Seuaturien, Douglas Sheil, Rodrigo Sierra, Miles R. Silman, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Murielle Simo-Droissart, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Plinio Sist, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Dominick V. Spracklen, Suzanne M. Stas, Robert Steinmetz, Pablo R. Stevenson, Juliana Stropp, Rahayu S. Sukri, Terry C. H. Sunderland, Eizi Suzuki, Michael D. Swaine, Jianwei Tang, James Taplin, David M. Taylor, J. Sebastián Tello, John Terborgh, Nicolas Texier, Ida Theilade, Duncan W. Thomas, Raquel Thomas, Sean C. Thomas, Milton Tirado, Benjamin Toirambe, José Julio de Toledo, Kyle W. Tomlinson, Armando Torres-Lezama, Hieu Dang Tran, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Roven D. Tumaneng, Maria Natalia Umaña, Peter M. Umunay, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Tinde R. Van Andel, Martin van de Bult, Jaqueline van de Pol, Geertje van der Heijden, Rodolfo Vasquez, César I. A. Vela, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Hans Verbeeck, Rizza Karen A. Veridiano, Alberto Vicentini, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Daniel Villarroel, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Jason Vleminckx, Patricio von Hildebrand, Vincent Antoine Vos, Corine Vriesendorp, Edward L. Webb, Lee J. T. White, Serge Wich, Florian Wittmann, Roderick Zagt, Runguo Zang, Charles Eugene Zartman, Lise Zemagho, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent Nature, 2024 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 investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations1–6 in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories7, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world’s most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees.
Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology Edwin Pos, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Dairon Cárdenas López, William E. Magnusson, Florian Wittmann, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, Daniel Sabatier, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Jean-François Molino, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, José Ferreira Ramos, Joseph E. Hawes, Everton José Almeida, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa, Larissa Cavalheiro, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Juan Carlos Montero, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Ted R. Feldpausch, Alvaro Duque, Chris Baraloto, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Jochen Schöngart, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Layon O. Demarchi, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo A. C. Aymard, Roel Brienen, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Flávia R. C. Costa, Adriano Quaresma, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Pablo R. Stevenson, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Hugo F. Mogollón, Leandro Valle Ferreira, James A. Comiskey, Freddie Draper, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Janaína Costa Noronha, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Thaise Emilio, Carolina Levis, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Juliana Schietti, Priscila Souza, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Jon Lloyd, David Neill, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Eliana M. Jimenez, Juan Carlos Licona, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Carlos A. Peres, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Carlos Cerón, Terry W. Henkel, Paul Maas, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas-Caesar, Tim R. Baker, Doug Daly, Kyle G. Dexter, John Ethan Householder, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Toby Pennington, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Alfredo Fuentes, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Miles R. Silman, J. Sebastián Tello, Jerome Chave, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Émile Fonty, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Jean-Louis Guillaumet, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Vincent Antoine Vos, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Angela Cano, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, Milena Holmgren, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Corine Vriesendorp, Ophelia Wang, Kenneth R. Young, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, William Milliken, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Gerhard Boenisch, Jens Kattge, Nathan Kraft, Aurora Levesley, Karina Melgaço, Georgia Pickavance, Lourens Poorter, Hans ter Steege Scientific Reports, 2023 In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained maximization of information entropy provides a framework for the understanding of such complex systems dynamics by a quantitative analysis of important constraints via predictions using least biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two thousand hectares of Amazonian tree inventories across seven forest types and thirteen functional traits, representing major global axes of plant strategies. Results show that constraints formed by regional relative abundances of genera explain eight times more of local relative abundances than constraints based on directional selection for specific functional traits, although the latter does show clear signals of environmental dependency. These results provide a quantitative insight by inference from large-scale data using cross-disciplinary methods, furthering our understanding of ecological dynamics.
Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora Hans ter Steege, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Florian Wittmann, Carolina V. Castilho, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Oliver L. Phillips, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean-François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Dairon Cárdenas López, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Layon O. Demarchi, Jochen Schöngart, Everton José Almeida, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa, Larissa Cavalheiro, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Flávia R. C. Costa, Ted R. Feldpausch, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Chris Baraloto, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Tim R. Baker, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, Freddie C. Draper, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Eliana M. Jimenez, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Janaína Costa Noronha, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Joseph E. Hawes, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Maria Julia Ferreira, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Flávia Machado Durgante, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Edwin Pos, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, Kyle G. Dexter, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Luis Torres Montenegro, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, María José Endara, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Aurora Levesley, Georgia Pickavance, Karina Melgaço Communications Biology, 2023 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.
More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia Vinicius Peripato, Carolina Levis, Guido A. Moreira, Dani Gamerman, Hans ter Steege, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Jonas G. de Souza, José Iriarte, Mark Robinson, André Braga Junqueira, Thiago B. Trindade, Fernando O. de Almeida, Claide de Paula Moraes, Umberto Lombardo, Eduardo K. Tamanaha, Shira Y. Maezumi, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, José R. G. Braga, Wesley A. Campanharo, Henrique L. G. Cassol, Philipe R. Leal, Mauro L. R. de Assis, Adriana M. da Silva, Oliver L. Phillips, Flávia R. C. Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, Bruce Hoffman, Terry W. Henkel, Maria Natalia Umaña, William E. Magnusson, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Jos Barlow, William Milliken, Maria Aparecida Lopes, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Tinde R. van Andel, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Armando Torres-Lezama, Rafael L. Assis, Jean-François Molino, Mickaël Mestre, Michelle Hamblin, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Florian Wittmann, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão Amaral, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Dairon Cárdenas López, Daniel Sabatier, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, José Ferreira Ramos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Layon O. Demarchi, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Jochen Schöngart, Ted R. Feldpausch, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Chris Baraloto, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Rodolfo Vasquez, Lorena M. Rincón, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Roel Brienen, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Janaína da Costa de Noronha, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Hugo F. Mogollón, Leandro Valle Ferreira, John Ethan Householder, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, Freddie C. Draper, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Eliana M. Jimenez, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Maria Julia Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Émile Fonty, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Juan Carlos Licona, Toby Pennington, Carlos A. Peres, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Germaine Alexander Parada, Guido Pardo Molina, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Paul Maas, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Tim R. Baker, Doug Daly, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo-Peña, Miles R. Silman, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Patricio von Hildebrand, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Therany Gonzales, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Fredy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão Science New York N Y, 2023 Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across the basin, of 24 previously undetected pre-Columbian earthworks beneath the forest canopy. Modeled distribution and abundance of large-scale archaeological sites across Amazonia suggest that between 10,272 and 23,648 sites remain to be discovered and that most will be found in the southwest. We also identified 53 domesticated tree species significantly associated with earthwork occurrence probability, likely suggesting past management practices. Closed-canopy forests across Amazonia are likely to contain thousands of undiscovered archaeological sites around which pre-Columbian societies actively modified forests, a discovery that opens opportunities for better understanding the magnitude of ancient human influence on Amazonia and its current state.
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research Raquel L. Carvalho, Angelica F. Resende, Jos Barlow, Filipe M. França, Mario R. Moura, Rafaella Maciel, Fernanda Alves-Martins, Jack Shutt, Cassio A. Nunes, Fernando Elias, Juliana M. Silveira, Lis Stegmann, Fabricio B. Baccaro, Leandro Juen, Juliana Schietti, Luiz Aragão, Erika Berenguer, Leandro Castello, Flavia R.C. Costa, Matheus L. Guedes, Cecilia G. Leal, Alexander C. Lees, Victoria Isaac, Rodrigo O. Nascimento, Oliver L. Phillips, Fernando Augusto Schmidt, Hans ter Steege, Fernando Vaz-de-Mello, Eduardo M. Venticinque, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Jansen Zuanon, Joice Ferreira, Raquel L. Carvalho, Angelica F. Resende, Jos Barlow, Filipe França, Mario R. Moura, Rafaella Maciel, Fernanda Alves-Martins, Jack Shutt, Cassio A. Nunes, Fernando Elias, Juliana M. Silveira, Lis Stegmann, Fabricio B. Baccaro, Leandro Juen, Juliana Schietti, Luiz Aragão, Erika Berenguer, Leandro Castello, Flavia R.C. Costa, Matheus L. Guedes, Cecilia G. Leal, Alexander C. Lees, Victoria Isaac, Rodrigo O. Nascimento, Oliver L. Phillips, Fernando Augusto Schmidt, Hans ter Steege, Fernando Vaz-de-Mello, Eduardo M. Venticinque, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Jansen Zuanon, Joice Ferreira, Adem Nagibe dos Santos Geber Filho, Ademir Ruschel, Adolfo Ricardo Calor, Adriana de Lima Alves, Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, Adriano Quaresma, Alberto Vicentini, Alexandra Rocha da Piedade, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira, Alexandre Aleixo, Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Alexandre Gontijo, Alexandre Hercos, Aline Andriolo, Aline Lopes, Aline Pontes-Lopes, Allan Paulo Moreira dos Santos, Amanda Batista da Silva de Oliveira, Amanda Frederico Mortati, Ana Karina Moreyra Salcedo, Ana Luisa Albernaz, Ana Luisa Fares, Ana Luiza Andrade, Ana Maria Oliveira Pes, Ana Paula Justino Faria, Anderson Pedro Bernadina Batista, Anderson Puker, Anderson S. Bueno, André Braga Junqueira, André Luiz Ramos Holanda de Andrade, André Ricardo Ghidini, André V. Galuch, Andressa Silvana Oliveira de Menezes, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Anne Sthephane A.S. Correa, Antonio C.M. Queiroz, Antonio Carlos da Silva Zanzini, Antonio Miguel Olivo Neto, Antonio Willian Flores de Melo, Aretha Franklin Guimaraes, Arlison Bezerra Castro, Augusto Borges, Aurélia Bentes Ferreira, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Bernardo M. Flores, Bethânia Oliveira de Resende, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Boris Villa, Bradley Davis, Bruce Nelson, Bruce Williamson, Bruna Santos Bitencourt de Melo, Bruno B.L. Cintra, Bruno Borges Santos, Bruno da Silveira Prudente, Bruno Garcia Luize, Bruno Spacek Godoy, Cameron L. Rutt, Camila Duarte Ritter, Camila V.J. Silva, Carla Rodrigues Ribas, Carlos A. Peres, Carlos Augusto Silva de Azevêdo, Carlos Freitas, Carlos Leandro Cordeiro, Carlos Rodrigo Brocardo, Carolina Castilho, Carolina Levis, Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria, Caroline C. Arantes, Cássia Anicá dos Santos, Catarina C. Jakovac, Celice Alexandre Silva, Cesar João Benetti, Chaim Lasmar, Charles J. Marsh, Christian Borges Andretti, Cinthia Pereira de Oliveira, Cintia Cornelius, Clarissa Alves da Rosa, Cláudia Baider, Cláudia G. Gualberto, Claudia Pereira de Deus, Cláudio da Silva Monteiro Jr., Cláudio Rabelo dos Santos Neto, Cleonice Maria Cardoso Lobato, Cleverson Rannieri Meira dos Santos, Cristian Camilo Mendoza Penagos, Daniel da Silva Costa, Daniel Luis Mascia Vieira, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar, Daniel Silas Veras, Daniela Pauletto, Danielle de Lima Braga, Danielle Storck-Tonon, Daniely da Frota Almeida, Danyhelton Douglas, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Darlene Gris, David Luther, David P. Edwards, David Pedroza Guimarães, Deane Cabral dos Santos, Débora Rodrigues de Souza Campana, Denis Silva Nogueira, Dennis Rodrigues da Silva, Dhâmyla Bruna de Souza Dutra, Dian Carlos Pinheiro Rosa, Diego Armando Silva da Silva, Diego Pedroza, Diego V. Anjos, Diego Viana Melo Lima, Divino V. Silvério, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Douglas Bastos, Douglas Daly, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Edith Rosario Clemente Arenas, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Ednaira Alencar dos Santos, Edrielly Carolinne Carvalho de Santana, Edson Guilherme, Edson Vidal, Eduardo Malta Campos-Filho, Eduardo van den Berg, Elder Ferreira Morato, Elidiomar R. da Silva, Elineide E. Marques, Elizabeth G. Pringle, Elizabeth Nichols, Ellen Andresen, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Emely Laiara Silva de Siqueira, Emília Zoppas de Albuquerque, Eric Bastos Görgens, Erlane José Rodrigues da Cunha, Ethan Householder, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Fabiana Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Fabrício Coletti, Fagno Reis, Felipe F.F. Moreira, Felipe Todeschini, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Fernando Augusto Barbosa Silva, Fernando Geraldo Carvalho, Fernando Gonçalves Cabeceira, Fernando Mendonça d’Horta, Fernando P. Mendonça, Fernando Prado Florêncio, Fernando Rogério de Carvalho, Filipe Viegas de Arruda, Flávia Alessandra da Silva Nonato, Flávia Delgado Santana, Flavia Durgante, Flávia Kelly Siqueira de Souza, Flávio Amorim Obermuller, Flávio Siqueira de Castro, Florian Wittmann, Francisco Matheus da Silva Sales, Francisco Valente- Neto, Frederico Falcão Salles, Gabriel Costa Borba, Gabriel Damasco, Gabriel Gazzana Barros, Gabriel Lourenço Brejão, Gabriela Abrantes Jardim, Ghillean T. Prance, Gisiane Rodrigues Lima, Gleison Robson Desidério, Gracilene da Costa de Melo, Guilherme Henrique Pompiano do Carmo, Guilherme Sampaio Cabral, Guillaume Xavier Rousseau, Gustavo Cardoso da Silva, Gustavo Schwartz, Hannah Griffiths, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Helder M.V. Espírito-Santo, Helena Soares Ramos Cabette, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Herison Medeiros, Hilton Jeferson Alves Cardoso de Aguiar, Híngara Leão, Icaro Wilker, Inês Correa Gonçalves, Inocêncio de Sousa Gorayeb, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Irving Foster Brown, Isis Caroline Siqueira Santos, Itanna Oliveira Fernandes, Izaias Fernandes, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Jadson Coelho de Abreu, Jaime de Liege Gama Neto, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Janaína Costa Noronha, Janaina Gomes de Brito, Jared Wolfe, Jean Carlos Santos, Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira, Jerrian Oliveira e Gomes, Jesse R. Lasky, Jéssica Caroline de Faria Falcão, Jessica Gomes Costa, Jessica Soares Cravo, Jesús Enrique Burgos Guerrero, Jhonatan Andrés Muñoz Gutiérrez, João Carreiras, João Lanna, Joás Silva Brito, Jochen Schöngart, Jonas José Mendes Aguiar, Jônatas Lima, Jorcely G. Barroso, Jorge Ari Noriega, Jorge Luiz da Silva Pereira, Jorge Luiz Nessimian, Jorge Luiz Pereira de Souza, José Julio de Toledo, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, José Luís Camargo, José Max B. Oliveira, José Moacir Ferreira Ribeiro, José Orlando de Almeida Silva, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Joseph E. Hawes, Joudellys Andrade-Silva, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Júlia Santana da Silva, Juliana da Silva Menger, Juliana Rechetelo, Juliana Stropp, Julianna Freires Barbosa, Julio Daniel do Vale, Julio Louzada, Július César Cerqueira Silva, Karina Dias da Silva, Karina Melgaço, Karine Santana Carvalho, Kedma Cristine Yamamoto, Keila Rêgo Mendes, Kevina Vulinec, Laís Ferreira Maia, Larissa Cavalheiro, Laura Barbosa Vedovato, Layon Oreste Demarchi, Leandro Giacomin, Leandro Lourenço Dumas, Leandro Maracahipes, Leandro Schlemmer Brasil, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Lenize Batista Calvão, Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, Leonardo Pequeno Reis, Letícia Fernandes da Silva, Lia de Oliveira Melo, Lidiany Camila da Silva Carvalho, Lílian Casatti, Lílian Lund Amado, Liliane Stedile de Matos, Lisandro Vieira, Livia Pires do Prado, Luana Alencar, Luane Fontenele, Lucas Mazzei, Lucas Navarro Paolucci, Lucas Pereira Zanzini, Lucélia Nobre Carvalho, Luciana Carvalho Crema, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa Brulinger, Luciano Fogaça de Assis Montag, Luciano Nicolas Naka, Ludson Azara, Luis Fábio Silveira, Luis Gabriel de Oliveira Nunes, Luís Miguel do Carmo Rosalino, Luiz A.M. Mestre, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Luiz Henrique Medeiros Borges, Luzia da Silva Lourenço, Madson Antonio Benjamin Freitas, Maiara Tábatha da Silva Brito, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Maíra da Rocha, Maira Rodrigues Cardoso, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Marcelo Bassols Raseira, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Marcelo Rodrigues dos Anjos, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Márcia Regina de Souza, Marcília Gabriella Tavares Monteiro, Márcio Joaquim da Silva, Marcio Uehara-Prado, Marco Antonio de Oliveira, Marcos Callisto, Marcos José Salgado Vital, Marcos Pérsi Dantas o Santos, Marcos Silveira, Marcus Vinicio Neves D. Oliveira, María Angélica Pérez-Mayorga, Maria Antonia Carniello, Maria Aparecida Lopes, Maria Aurea Pinheiro de Almeida Silveira, Maria Cristina Esposito, Maria Eduarda Maldaner, Maria Inês S. Passos, Maria José Pinheiro Anacléto, Maria Katiane Sousa Costa, Maria Pires Martins, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Mariana Victória Irume, Marília Maria Silva da Costa, Marina Franco de Almeida Maximiano, Marina Guimarães Freitas, Mark A. Cochrane, Markus Gastauer, Marllus Rafael Negreiros Almeida, Mateus Fernando de Souza, Michel Catarino, Michela Costa Batista, Mike R. Massam, Mila Ferraz de Oliveira Martins, Milena Holmgren, Morgana Almeida, Murilo S. Dias, Nádia Barbosa Espírito Santo, Naraiana Loureiro Benone, Natalia Macedo Ivanauskas, Natália Medeiros, Natalia Targhetta, Nathalia Silva Félix, Nelson Ferreira, Neusa Hamada, Nubia Campos, Nubia França da Silva Giehl, Oliver Charles Metcalf, Otávio Guilherme Morais da Silva, Pablo Vieira Cerqueira, Pamela Moser, Patrícia Nakayama Miranda, Patricia Santos Ferreira Peruquetti, Paula Palhares de Polari Alverga, Paula Prist, Paula Souto, Paulo Brando, Paulo dos Santos Pompeu, Paulo Eduardo Barni, Paulo Mauricio de Alencastro Graça, Paulo S. Morandi, Paulo Vilela Cruz, Pedro Giovâni da Silva, Pitágoras C. Bispo, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Priscila S. de M. Sarmento, Priscila Souza, Rafael Barreto de Andrade, Rafael Benzi Braga, Rafael Boldrini, Rafael Costa Bastos, Rafael Leandro de Assis, Rafael P. Salomão, Rafael Pereira Leitão, Raimundo N.G. Mendes, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Ramiro Dário Melinski, Raphael Ligeiro, Raúl Enriqu Pirela e Pérez, Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa, Reinaldo Lucas Cajaiba, Renato Azevedo Matias Silvano, Renato Portela Salomão, Renato Richard Hilário, Renato Tavares Martins, Ricardo de Oliveira Perdiz, Ricardo Eduardo Vicente, Ricardo José da Silva, Ricardo Koroiva, Ricardo Solar, Richarlly da Costa Silva, Robson Borge s de Lima, Robson dos Santos Alves da Silva, Rodolfo Mariano, Rodrigo Arison Barbosa Ribeiro, Rodrigo Ferreira Fadini, Rodrigo Leonardo Costa de Oliveira, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa, Rodrigo Matavelli, Roger Paulo Mormul, Rogério Rosa da Silva, Ronald Zanetti, Ronaldo Barthem, Rony Peterson Santos Almeida, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Salustiano Vila da r Costa Neto, Samuel Nienow, Sérgio Augusto Vidal de Oliveira, Sérgio Henrique Borges, Sérgio Milheiras, Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, Sheyla Regina Marques Couceiro, Sidney Araújo de Sousa, Silvia Barbosa Rodrigues, Silvia Leitão Dutra, Simon Mahood, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Solange Arrolho, Sonaira Souza da Silva, Stefania Pinzón Triana, Susan Laurance, Sustanis Horn Kunz, Swanni T. Alvarado, Taís Helena Araujo Rodrigues, Talitha Ferreira dos Santos, Tatiana Lemos da Silva Machado, Ted R. Feldpausch, Thaiane Sousa, Thaisa Sala Michelan, Thaise Emilio, Thaline de Freitas Brito, Thiago André, Thiago Augusto Pedroso Barbosa, Thiago Barros Miguel, Thiago Junqueira Izzo, Thiago Orsi Laranjeiras, Thiago Pereira Mendes, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Tiago Kütter Krolow, Tiago Octavio Begot, Timothy R. Baker, Tomas F. 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Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates Diego F. Correa, Pablo R. Stevenson, Maria Natalia Umaña, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Florian Wittmann, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Jean‐François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, José Ferreira Ramos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John W. Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Juan Carlos Montero, Jochen Schöngart, Dairon Cárdenas López, Flávia R. C. Costa, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Layon O. Demarchi, Ted R. Feldpausch, Rafael L. Assis, Christopher Baraloto, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Roel Brienen, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Hugo F. Mogollón, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García‐Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Freddie C. Draper, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, David Neill, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Eliana M. Jimenez, Juan Carlos Licona, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Carlos Cerón, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Paul Maas, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Flávia Machado Durgante, Tim R. Baker, Doug Daly, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, William Milliken, Toby Pennington, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Pardo Molina, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Peña, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, J. Sebastián Tello, Wegliane Campelo, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas‐Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Vincent Antoine Vos, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Janaína Costa Noronha, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez‐Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Corine Vriesendorp, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan‐Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares‐Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Germaine Alexander Parada, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia‐Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Hans ter Steege Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2023
Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin Manuel J. Marca‐Zevallos, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Thaiane R. Sousa, Juliana Schietti, Luiz de Souza Coelho, José Ferreira Ramos, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Lorena M. Rincón, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Rogério Gribel, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Rafael P. Salomão, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Corine Vriesendorp, Tim R. Baker, Roel Brienen, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Percy Núñez Vargas, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Rodolfo Vasquez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Hugo F. Mogollón, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Beatriz S. Marimon, Timothy J. Killeen, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, David Neill, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, John Terborgh, Juan Carlos Montero, Juan Carlos Licona, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Roosevelt García‐Villacorta, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Daniel Villarroel, Nállarett Dávila, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, James A. Comiskey, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Carolina V. Castilho, Jon Lloyd, Ted R. Feldpausch, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Dairon Cárdenas López, Gerardo A. Aymard Corredor, Anthony Di Fiore, Agustín Rudas, Adriana Prieto, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Janaína Costa Noronha, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Carlos A. Peres, William Milliken, Alfredo Fuentes, J. Sebastián Tello, Carlos Cerón, Bente Klitgaard, Milton Tirado, Rodrigo Sierra, Kenneth R. Young, Gonzalo Francisco Rivas‐Torres, Pablo R. Stevenson, Angela Cano, Ophelia Wang, Cláudia Baider, Jos Barlow, Joice Ferreira, Erika Berenguer, Juliana Stropp, Henrik Balslev, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Italo Mesones, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Therany Gonzales, Susamar Pansini, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Vincent Antoine Vos, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, William Farfan‐Rios, Miles R. Silman, Karina Garcia‐Cabrera, Patricio von Hildebrand, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Juan Fernando Phillips, César I. A. Vela, José Julio de Toledo, Daniela Pauletto, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Maria Natalia Umaña, Oliver L. Phillips, William E. Magnusson, Hans ter Steege, Flávia R. C. Costa Ecography, 2022
Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora Hans ter Steege, Paulo I. Prado, Renato A. F. de Lima, Edwin Pos, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Dairon Cárdenas López, William E. Magnusson, Florian Wittmann, Maria Pires Martins, Daniel Sabatier, Mariana Victória Irume, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Jean-François Molino, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, José Ferreira Ramos, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Bruno Garcia Luize, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Juan Carlos Montero, Alvaro Duque, Flávia R. C. Costa, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Jochen Schöngart, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Layon O. Demarchi, Ted R. Feldpausch, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Chris Baraloto, Rafael L. Assis, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Adriano Quaresma, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena M. Rincón, Ana Andrade, Thaiane R. Sousa, José Luís Camargo, Juliana Schietti, William F. Laurance, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Maria Aparecida Lopes, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Roel Brienen, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Pablo R. Stevenson, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Hugo F. Mogollón, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Aline Lopes, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Freddie Draper, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jon Lloyd, Vitor H. F. Gomes, David Neill, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Rogerio Gribel, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Kenneth J. Feeley, Erika Berenguer, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Jos Barlow, Joice Ferreira, Boris Villa, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Eliana M. Jimenez, Juan Carlos Licona, Carlos Cerón, Raquel Thomas, Paul Maas, Marcos Silveira, Terry W. Henkel, Juliana Stropp, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Kyle G. Dexter, Doug Daly, Tim R. Baker, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, William Milliken, Toby Pennington, J. Sebastián Tello, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Carlos A. Peres, Bente Klitgaard, Alfredo Fuentes, Miles R. Silman, Anthony Di Fiore, Patricio von Hildebrand, Jerome Chave, Tinde R. van Andel, Renato Richard Hilário, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Janaína Costa Noronha, Adriana Prieto, Therany Gonzales, Rainiellene de Sá Carpanedo, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Egleé L. Zent, Ademir R. Ruschel, Vincent Antoine Vos, Émile Fonty, André Braga Junqueira, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Bruce Hoffman, Stanford Zent, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Natalino Silva, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, César I. A. Vela, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Agustín Rudas, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Maria Natalia Umaña, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Geertje van der Heijden, Kenneth R. Young, Milton Tirado, Diego F. Correa, Rodrigo Sierra, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Maira Rocha, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Ophelia Wang, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Michelle Kalamandeen, Corine Vriesendorp, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Milena Holmgren, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, David Galbraith, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Angela Cano, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Italo Mesones, Cláudia Baider, Casimiro Mendoza, Roderick Zagt, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Cid Ferreira, Daniel Villarroel, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, William Farfan-Rios, William Farfan-Rios, Luisa Fernanda Casas, Sasha Cárdenas, Henrik Balslev, Armando Torres-Lezama, Miguel N. Alexiades, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Lionel Hernandez, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Susamar Pansini, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Daniela Pauletto, Aurora Levesley, Karina Melgaço, Georgia Pickavance Scientific Reports, 2020
Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests Hans ter Steege, Terry W. Henkel, Nora Helal, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andreas Huth, Jürgen Groeneveld, Daniel Sabatier, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Dairon Cárdenas López, William E. Magnusson, Florian Wittmann, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Jean-François Molino, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, José Ferreira Ramos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Juan Carlos Montero, Ted R. Feldpausch, Alvaro Duque, Flávia R. C. Costa, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Jochen Schöngart, Timothy J. Killeen, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Layon O. Demarchi, Rafael L. Assis, Chris Baraloto, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Adriano Quaresma, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Lorena M. Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Roel Brienen, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Pablo R. Stevenson, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Hugo F. Mogollón, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Freddie Draper, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, Jon Lloyd, David Neill, Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Eliana M. Jimenez, Juan Carlos Licona, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Boris Villa, Carlos Cerón, Paul Maas, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Tim R. Baker, Doug Daly, Kyle G. Dexter, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, William Milliken, Toby Pennington, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, J. Sebastián Tello, Jerome Chave, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, Janaína Costa Noronha, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Émile Fonty, Ricardo GómeZárate z, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Vincent Antoine Vos, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Maria Natalia Umaña Medina, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Corine Vriesendorp, Ophelia Wang, Kenneth R. Young, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres-Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Aurora Levesley, Georgia Pickavance, Karina Melgaço Scientific Reports, 2019