ATDN
Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Image credit © 2023 ATDN/ Communications Biology.
Amazon Tree Diversity Network
Description
The forests of the Amazon basin and Guiana Shield (together Amazonia) arguably hold the greatest biodiversity on Earth: an estimated 1300 species of birds, 427 species of mammals and 50,000 species of seed plants. Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in Amazonia, but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basin-wide patterns.
What are the patterns of diversity, why are they there, how did the incredible diversity originate and how is it maintained? These are fundamental questions we need to answer to understand this incredible region and to be able to better utilize and protect its diversity. The Amazon Tree Diversity Network manages a large plot dataset to help answer these questions.
Funding/ Partners
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Collaborators
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Caroline C. Vasconcelos
My research interests include taxonomy and systematics (especially neotropical Sapotaceae), spectroscopy as a integrative tools, Amazonian flora, species distribution modeling, floristic studies, and tropical forest ecology.
