If you have ever wondered how many species of trees satellite Earth hold , we can now discover to you that the magic number currently known to science is 60,065 .
The globe ’s largest global subject area on tree species took two age to complete and was collect by theBotanical Gardens Conservation International(BGCI ) , with help from some 500 member organisation .
The data point collected has been compile into an online database – GlobalTreeSearch – that the researchers go for can be used as a tool to discover rare and threatened species . Their study is publish in theJournal of Sustainable Forestry .
The database is searchable by genus and species , but also by area as one of the gripping statistics to come out of this field of study is that 58 percent of all tree species are individual country endemics , which entail that although this make them easier to search for , unluckily they will also be more vulnerable to possible scourge . And these days there are plenitude of terror : deforestation , illegal logging , extreme weather , global thaw , forest fires , and disease , to name a few .
Around 300 specie were identify as critically endanger , mean they had 50 or fewer trees left growing in the wild .
The study also revealed that Brazil alone accounts for 8,715 species , making it the body politic with the large smorgasbord of tree diagram , followed by Colombia and then Indonesia . They also found that the countries with the most endemic species had the widest variety , which included Australia and China .
The polar neighborhood obviously have no trees , but the surface area with the least amount of specie was the part of North America closemouthed to the Arctic , with less than 1,400 . Isolated island nations like Madagascar and Papua New Guinea had the greatest charge per unit of speciation . you could follow the BGCI on Twitter for more snip on their findings .
The BGCI compiled the database to create the most comprehensive list of tree diagram species and for its country - level distributions to be used as the basis for its Global Tree Assessment , a conservation assessment of all the existence ’s trees , that it – in partnership with theIUCN / SSC Global Tree Specialist Group – is planning to complete by 2020 .
And if you are wondering what make a tree diagram a tree diagram …
