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Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species (2015)
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ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Peres, C. A., Guevara, J. E., …Gamarra, L. V. (in press). Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances, 1(10), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936

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... Read More about Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.