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  • PublicationOpen Access
    First-ever complete list of amazonian timber tree species
    (Wiley, 2023) Herrera Álvarez, Ximena; Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio; Phillips, Oliver L.; Guadalupe, Vicente; Ortega-López, Leonardo D.; Steege, Hans ter; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo; Ciencias; Zientziak
    We compiled and presented a dataset (named “MADERA”) for all timber species reported in the Amazon region from all nine South American Amazonian countries. This work was based on official information from every country and on two substantial scientific references. Our final Amazonian timber species dataset contains 1,112 unique species records, which belong to 337 genera and 72 families from the lowland Amazonian rainforest, with associated information related to population, conservation (IUCN Red list categories), and trade status (ITTO/CITES) of each species. The authors of this research expect that the information provided will be useful to strengthen sustainable forest management and scientific research in the Amazonian region.
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    MADERA: a standardized pan-amazonian dataset for tropical timber species
    (Wiley, 2023) Herrera Álvarez, Ximena; Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio; Phillips, Oliver L.; Guadalupe, Vicente; Ortega-López, Leonardo D.; Steege, Hans ter; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo; Ciencias; Zientziak; Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Applied Biology - IMAB
    We compiled and presented a dataset for all timber species reported in the Amazon region from all nine South American Amazonian countries. This was based on official information from every country, as well as from two substantial scientific references. We verified the standard taxonomic names from each individual source, using the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) and considered all Amazonian tree species with diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥10 cm. We also obtained estimates of the current population size for most species from a published approach based on data from 1900 tree inventory plots (1-ha each) distributed across the Amazon region and part from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). We then identified the hyperdominant timber species. In addition, we overlapped our timber species list with data for species that are used for commercial purposes, according to the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) taxa assessment and Red List categories. Finally, we also included IUCN Red List categories based on combined deforestation, and climate change scenarios for these species. Our final Amazonian timber species dataset contains 1112 unique species records, which belong to 337 genera and 72 families from the lowland Amazonian rainforest, with associated information related to population, conservation, and trade status of each species. The authors of this research expect that the information provided will be useful to strengthen the public forestry policies of the Amazon countries, inform ecological studies, as well for forest management purposes. The data are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.