Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 40, 2017, Pages 10695-10700

  Cardoso, Domingos ^a   Särkinen, Tiina ^b   Alexander, Sara ^c   Amorim, André M ^d   Bittrich, Volker ^e   Celis, Marcela ^f,g   Daly, Douglas C ^h   Fiaschi, Pedro ⁱ   Funk, Vicki A ^c   Giacomin, Leandro L ^j   Goldenberg, Renato ^k   Heiden, Gustavo ^l   Iganci, João ^m   Kelloff, Carol L ^c   Knapp, Sandra ⁿ   De Lima, Haroldo Cavalcante ^o   Machado, Anderson F P ^p   Dos Santos, Rubens Manoel ^q   Mello Silva, Renato ^r   Michelangeli, Fabián A ^h   Mitchell, John ^h   Moonlight, Peter ^b   De Moraes, Pedro Luís Rodrigues ^s   Mori, Scott A ^h   Nunes, Teonildes Sacramento ^p   Pennington, Terry D ^t   Pirani, José Rubens ^r   Prance, Ghillean T ^t   De Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci ^p   Rapini, Alessandro ^p   Riina, Ricarda ^u   Rincon, Carlos Alberto Vargas ^v   Roque, Nádia ^a   Shimizu, Gustavo ^w   Sobral, Marcos ^x   Stehmann, João Renato ^y   Stevens, Warren D ^z   Taylor, Charlotte M ^z   Trovó, Marcelo ^aa   Van Den Berg, Cássio ^p   Van Der Werff, Henk ^z   Viana, Pedro Lage ^ab   Zartman, Charles E ^ac   Forzza, Rafaela Campostrini ^o   more..

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^e Universidad del Norte ^*  (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE   (Colombia)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^h INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

ⁱ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO OESTE DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

^k UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^l EMBRAPA CLIMA TEMPERADO   (Brazil)

^m FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

ⁿ DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^o INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS JARDIM BOTÂNICO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^p DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^q FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^r UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^s SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^t ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^u CSIC   (Spain)

^v UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^x FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^y FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^z MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^aa FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^ab MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^ac INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

Amazonia; Floristics; Rain forests; Seed plants; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ANNONACEAE; ARACEAE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; EPIPHYTE; EUGENIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; EVOLUTION; HERB; LAURACEAE; LEGUME; LIANA; MELASTOMATACEAE; MYRTACEAE; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; ORCHIDACEAE; PHILODENDRON; POACEAE; POUTERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRIA; RAIN FOREST; RUBIACEAE; SEED PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TREE; CLASSIFICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; PLANT;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; PLANTS; RAINFOREST;

EID: 85030452653     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706756114     Document Type: Article

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