Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

DRYFLOR; Morag McDonald; Karina  Banda-R; Alfonso  Delgado-Salinas; Kyle G.  Dexter; Reynaldo  Linares-Palomino; Ary  Oliveira-Filho; Darién  Prado; Martin  Pullan; Catalina  Quintana; Ricarda  Riina; Gina M.  Rodríguez M; Julia  Weintritt; Pedro  Acevedo-Rodríguez; Juan  Adarve; Esteban  Álvarez; Anairamiz  Aranguren B.; Julián Camilo  Arteaga; Gerardo  Aymard; Alejandro  Castaño; Natalia  Ceballos-Mago

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Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

DRYFLOR
, Morag McDonald
, Karina Banda-R
, Alfonso Delgado-Salinas
, Kyle G. Dexter
, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
, Ary Oliveira-Filho
, Darién Prado
, Martin Pullan
, Catalina Quintana
, Ricarda Riina
, Gina M. Rodríguez M
, Julia Weintritt
, Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez
, Juan Adarve
, Esteban Álvarez
, Anairamiz Aranguren B.
, Julián Camilo Arteaga
, Gerardo Aymard
, Alejandro Castaño

Natalia Ceballos-Mago

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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, whichmay 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 continental scale

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1383-1387
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	353
Issue number	6306
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5080
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2016

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DRYFLOR, McDonald, M., Banda-R, K., Delgado-Salinas, A., Dexter, K. G., Linares-Palomino, R., Oliveira-Filho, A., Prado, D., Pullan, M., Quintana, C., Riina, R., Rodríguez M, G. M., Weintritt, J., Acevedo-Rodríguez, P., Adarve, J., Álvarez, E., Aranguren B., A., Arteaga, J. C., Aymard, G., ... Ceballos-Mago, N. (2016). Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications. Science, 353(6306), 1383-1387. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5080

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