Counting trees in the Amazon | Nature

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The Amazon rainforest is renowned for its biodiversity, but just 227 'hyperdominant' species account for half of all trees across

the 6-million-square-kilometre basin. Hans ter Steege of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, and his colleagues analysed data from 1,170 plots scattered across the

forest and then extrapolated their data to the entire basin. They calculated that the region contains around 390 billion trees with trunks of 10 centimetres or more in diameter, and some

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