Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

• Autor(a) principal: Steege, Hans Ter
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Pitman, Nigel C.A., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Peres, Carlos A., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Salomão, Rafael Paiva, Castilho, Carolina Volkmer, Amaral, Iêda Leão do, Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida, Coelho, Luiz Souza de, Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Di Fiore, Anthony, Phillips, Juan Fernando, van Andel, Tinde, von Hildebrand, Patricio, Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques, Bonates, Luiz Carlos de Matos, Castro, Deborah de, Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa, Gonzales, Therany, Magnusson, William Ernest, Guillaumet, Jean Louis, Hoffman, Bruce, Malhi, Yadvinder Singh, Miranda, Ires Paula de Andrade, Prieto, Adriana, Rudas, Agustín, Ruschell, Ademir R., Silva, Natalino, Vela, César I.A., Vos, Vincent A., Phillips, Oliver L., Zent, Eglée L., Zent, Stanford, Cano, Ángela, Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade, Oliveira, Alexandre Adalardo de, Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma, Ramos, José Ferreira, Sierra, Rodrigo, Tirado, Milton, Medina, María Natalia Umaña, Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade, Van Der Heijden, Geertje M.F., Torre, Emilio Vilanova, Vriesendorp, Corine F., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Baider, Claudia, Balslev, Henrik, Castro, Natalia de, Farfan-Rios, William, Ferreira, Cid A., Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Mendoza, Casimiro, Mesones, Italo, Torres-Lezama, Armando, Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego, Villarroel, Daniel, Zagt, Roderick J., Alexiades, Miguel N., García-Cabrera, Karina, Hernández, Lionel, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Irume, Mariana Victoria, Milliken, William, Cuenca, Walter Palacios, Pansini, Susamar, Pauletto, Daniela, Arévalo, Freddy Ramirez, Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe, Sandoval, Elvis H.Valderrama, Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela, Martins, Maria Pires, Molino, Jean François, Sabatier, Daniel, Wittmann, Florian Karl, López, Dairon Cárdenas, Guimarães, José Renan da Silva, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa, Terborgh, John W., Casula, Katia Regina, Montero, Juan Carlos, Feldpausch, Ted R., Honorio Coronado, Euridice N., Montoya, Álvaro Javier Duque, Zartman, Charles Eugene, Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Vásquez, Rodolfo V., Assis, Rafael L., Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Andrade, Ana C.S., Camargo, José Luís Campana, Laurance, Susan G.W., Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça, Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes, Marimon, Ben Hur, Costa, Flávia Regina Capellotto, Targhetta, Natália, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia, Brienen, Roel J.W., Castellanos, Hernán, Duivenvoorden, Joost F., Mogollón, Hugo F., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Gerardo, A. Aymard C., Comiskey, James A., Damasco, Gabriel, Dávila, Nállarett, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Diaz, Pablo Roberto Stevenson, Vincentini, Alberto, Emilio, Thaise, Levis, Carolina, Schietti, Juliana, Souza, Priscila F., Alonso, Alfonso, Dallmeier, Francisco, Ferreira, Leandro Valle, Neill, David A., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arroyo, Luzmila P., Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes, Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Amaral, Dário Dantas do, Gribel, Rogério, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins, Van Antwerp Fine, Paul, Toledo, Marisol, Baraloto, Christopher, Cerón, Carlos E., Engel, Julien, Henkel, Terry W., Jiménez, E. M., Maas, Paul J.M., Peñuela, María Cristina, Pétronelli, Pascal, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, Baker, Timothy R., Daly, Douglas Charles, Paredes, Marcos Ríos, Silva, Naara Ferreira da, Fuentes, A., JØrgensen, Peter Møller, Schöngart, Jochen, Silman, Miles R., Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Cintra, Bruno Bar?ante Ladvocat
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do INPA
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15880
• topic: Deforestation; Environmental Protection; Forestry; Land Use; Tropics; Conservation Planning; Conservation Status; Extinction Risks; Indigenous People; Land Use Policy; Protected Areas; Threatened Species; Tropical Tree Species; Conservation

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict that most of the world's >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century. © 2015 The Authors.