Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

DRYFLOR; Banda, Karina; Delgado‐Salinas, Alfonso; Dexter, Kyle G.; Linares‐Palomino, Reynaldo; Oliveira‐Filho, Ary Teixeira de; Prado, Darién E.; Pullan, Martin R.; Quintana, Catalina; Riina, Ricarda; M., Gina M. Rodríguez; Weintritt, Julia; Acevedo‐Rodríguez, Pedro; Adarve, Juan; Álvarez, Esteban; B., Anairamiz Aranguren; Arteaga, Julián Camilo; C., Gerardo A. Aymard; Castaño, Alejandro; Ceballos-Mago, Natalia; Cogollo, Álvaro; Cuadros, Hermes; Delgado, Freddy; Devia, Wilson; Dueñas, Hilda; Fajardo, Laurie; Fernández, Ángel Martín; Fernández, Miller Ángel; Franklin, Janet; Freid, Ethan; Galetti, Luciano; Gonto, Reina; González‐M., Roy; Graveson, Roger; Helmer, Eileen H.; Idárraga, Álvaro; Camacho, René López; Marcano‐Vega, Humfredo; Martínez, Olga G.; Maturo, Hernán M.; McDonald, Morag; McLaren, Kurt; Melo, Omar; Mijares, Francisco; Mogni, Virginia Y.; Molina, Diego Alonso Restrepo; Moreno, Natalia del Pilar; Nassar, Jafet M.; Neves, Danilo M.; Oakley, Luis J.; Oatham, Michael P.; Olvera-Luna, Alma Rosa; Pezzini, Flávia Fonseca; Domínguez, Orlando Joel Reyes; Ríos, María Elvira; Rivera-Díaz, Orlando; Rodríguez, Nelly; Rojas, Alicia; Särkinen, Tiina; Sánchez, Roberto; Smith, Melvin N. E.; Vargas, Carlos; Villanueva, Boris; Pennington, R. Toby

doi:10.1126/science.aaf5080

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Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

DDRYFLORKBKarina Banda ADAlfonso Delgado‐Salinas KGKyle G. Dexter RLReynaldo Linares‐Palomino

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Abstract

Seasonally dry tropical forests are distributed across Latin America and the Caribbean and are highly threatened, with less than 10% of their original extent remaining in many countries. Using 835 inventories covering 4660 species of woody plants, we show marked floristic turnover among inventories and regions, which may be higher than in other neotropical biomes, such as savanna. Such high floristic turnover indicates that numerous conservation areas across many countries will be needed to protect the full diversity of tropical dry forests. Our results provide a scientific framework within which national decision-makers can contextualize the floristic significance of their dry forest at a regional and…

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Biome
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Floristics
Threatened species
Geography
Ecology
Biodiversity
Agroforestry

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