Scientists compile list of all known Amazon tree species, say it could take three centuries to find the rest

Mongabay
By Mike GaworeckiJul 14, 2016, 9:20 am394 pts
Back in 2013, an international team of botanists estimated that there were about 16,000 species of trees in the Amazon rainforest. No one had ever actually counted up all of the species we already know about, however, so many of those same scientists, led by Hans ter Steege at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center…

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