Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Integrating multiple sources of ecological data to unveil macroscale species abundance

  • Keiichi Fukaya,
  • Buntarou Kusumoto,
  • Takayuki Shiono,
  • Junichi Fujinuma,
  • Yasuhiro Kubota

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15407-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Measurement of species abundance is fundamental in ecology, yet challenging at large spatial scales. Here, the authors show estimates of abundance of 1248 woody plant species over the East Asian islands that highlight macroevolutionary processes of biodiversity and the status of the national red listing.