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The Global Abundance Of Tree Palms, Robert Muscarella, Thaise Emilio, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Ferry Slik, William J. Baker, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Jens-Christian Svenning, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, Everton C. De Almeida, Samuel S. De Almeida, Edmar Almeida De Oliveira, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Luciana F. Alves, Carlos Mariano Alvez-Valles, Fabricio Alvim Carvalho, Fernando Alzate Guarin, Ana Andrade, Luis E. O. C. Aragao, Alejandro Araujo Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter S. Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard Corredor, Timothy R. Baker, Plinio Barbosa De Camargo, Jos Barlow, Jean-Francois Bastin, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Erika Berenguer, Nicholas Berry, Lilian Blanc, Katrin Bohning-Gaese, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Matt Bradford, Fabian Brambach, Francis Q. Brearley, Steven W. Brewer, Jose L. C. Camargo, David G. Campbell, Carolina V. Castilho, Wendeson Castro, Damien Catchpole, Carlos E. Ceron Martinez, Shengbin Chen, Phourin Chhang, Percival Cho, Wanlop Chutipong, Connie Clark, Murray Collins, James A. Comiskey, Massiel Nataly Corrales Medina, Flavia R. C. Costa, Heike Culmsee, Heriberto David-Higuita, Pirya Davidar, Jhon Del Aguila-Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Anthony Di Fiore, Tran Van Do, Jean-Louis Doucet, Aurelie Dourdain, Donald R. Drake, Andreas Ensslin, Terry Erwin, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Robert M. Ewers, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Joice Ferreira, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Markus Fischer, Janet Franklin, Gabriella M. Fredriksson, Thomas W. Gillespie, Martin Gilpin, Christelle Gonmadje, Arachchige Upali Nimal Gunatilleke, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Jefferson S. Hall, Keith C. Hamer, David J. Harris, Rhett D. Harrison, Andrew Hector, Andreas Hemp, Bruno Herault, Carlos Gabriel Hidalgo Pizango, Euridice N. Honorio Corando, Wannes Hubau, Mohammad Shah Hussain, Faridah-Hanum Ibrahim, Nobuo Imai, Carlos A. Joly, Shijo Joseph, Anitha K, Kuswata Kartawinata, Justin Kassi, Timothy J. Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, Bente Bang Klitgard, Robert Kooyman, Nicolas Labriere, Eileen Larney, Yves Laumonier, Susan G. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Michael J. Lawes, Aurora Levesley, Janvier Lisingo, Thomas Lovejoy, Jon C. Lovett, Xinghui Lu, Anne Mette Lykke, William E. Magnusson, Ni Putu Diana Mahayani, Yadvinder Malhi, Asyraf Mansor, Jon Luis Marcelo Peña, Ben Hur Marimon Jr., Andrew R. Marshall, Karina Melgaco, Casimiro Mendoza Bautista, Vianet Mihindou, Jerome Millet, William Milliken, D. Mohandass, Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo Mendoza, Badru Mugerwa, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Laszlo Nagy, Naret Seuaturien, Marcelo T. Nascimento, David A. Neill, Luiz Menini Neto, Rueben Nilus, Mario Percy Nuñez Vargas, Eddy Nurtjahya, R. Nazare O. De Araujo, Onrizal Onrizal, Walter A. Palacios, Sonia Palacios-Ramos, Marc Parren, Ekanada Paudel, Paulo S. Morandi, R. Toby Pennington, Georgia Picavance, John J. Pipoly Iii, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Erny Poedjirahajoe, Lourens Poorter, John R. Poulsen, P. Rama Chandra Prasad, Adriana Prieto, Jean-Philippe Puyravaud, Lan Qie, Carlos A. Quesada, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Jean Claude Razafimahaimodison, Jan Meindert Reitsma, Edilson J. Requena-Rojas, Zoraya Restrepo Correa, Carlos Reynel Rodriguez, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Andes Rozak, Agustin Rudas Lleras, Ervan Rutishauser, Gemma Rutten, Ruwan Punchi-Manage, Rafael P. Salomao, Hoang Van Sam, Swapan Kumar Sarker, Manichanh Satdichanh, Juliana Schietti, Christine B. Schmitt, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Feyera Senbeta, Lila Nath Sharma, Douglas Sheil, Rodrigo Sierra, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Bonaventure Sonke, Marc K. Steininger, Robert Steinmetz, Tariq Stevart, Raman Sukumar, Aisha Sultana, Terry C. H. Sunderland, Hebbalalu Satyanarayana Suresh, Jianwei Tang, Edmund Tanner, Hans Ter Steege, John W. Terborgh, Ida Theilade, Jonathan Timberlake, Armando Torres-Lezama, Peter Umunay, Maria Uriarte, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Martin Van De Bult, Peter Van Der Hout, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Ima Celia Guimaraes Vieira, Simone A. Vieira, Emilio Vilanova, Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo, Ophelia Wang, Campbell O. Webb, Edward L. Webb, Lee White, Timothy J. S. Whitfeld, Serge Wich, Simon Willcock, Susan K. Wiser, Kenneth R. Young, Rahmad Zakaria, Runguo Zang, Charles E. Zartman, Irie Casimir Zo-Bi, Henrik Balslev

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Aim

Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily, morphologically and physiologically distinct from other trees, and these differences have important consequences for ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration and storage) and in terms of responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns of tree palm relative abundance to help improve understanding of tropical forests and reduce uncertainty about these ecosystems under climate change.

Location

Tropical and subtropical moist forests.

Time period

Current.

Major taxa studied

Palms (Arecaceae).

Methods

We assembled a pantropical dataset of 2,548 …