Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

作者：DRYFLOR, Karina Banda, Alfonso Delgado‐Salinas, Kyle Graham Dexter, Reynaldo Linares‐Palomino, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, Darién E. Prado, Martin R. 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 A. Aymard C., Alejandro Castaño, Natalia Ceballos-Mago, Álvaro Cogollo, Hermes Cuadros, Freddy Manuel Camacho Delgado, Wilson Devia, Hilda Dueñas, Laurie Fajardo, Ángel Martín Fernández, Miller Ángel Fernández, Janet Franklin, Ethan H. Freid, Luciano A. Galetti, Reina Gonto, Roy González‐M., Roger Graveson, Eileen H. Helmer, Álvaro Idárraga, René López Camacho, Humfredo Marcano‐Vega, Olga G. Martínez, Hernán M. Maturo, Morag A. McDonald, Kurt P. McLaren, Omar Melo, Francisco Mijares, Virginia Y. Mogni, Diego Alonso Restrepo Molina, Natalia del Pilar Moreno, Jafet M. Nassar, Danilo Mesquita Neves, Luis J. Oakley, Michael P. Oatham, Alma Rosa Olvera-Luna, Flávia Fonseca Pezzini, Orlando Joel Reyes Domínguez, María Elvira Ríos, Orlando Rivera-Díaz, Nelly Rodríguez, Alicia Rojas, Tiina Särkinen, Roberto Mariano Sánchez, Melvin N. E. Smith, Carlos Vargas, Boris Villanueva, R. Toby Pennington · 发表于：Science · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1126/science.aaf5080 · 被引用次数：756 · 研究领域：Plant and animal studies、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies、Plant Diversity and Evolution

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 continental scale.