Researchers estimate 16,000 tree species in the Amazon with half of all trees belonging to just 227 species
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers, taxonomists, and students from The Field Museum and 88 other institutions around the world have provided new answers to two simple but long-standing questions about Amazonian diversity: How many trees are there in the Amazon, and how many tree species occur there? The study will be published October 17, 2013 in Science.