Extinction—or just unseen? What Centinela reveals about biodiversity data gaps

Mongabay
Mar 29, 2026, 8:59 pm86 ptsTrending
In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of plant species known only from that site—Centinela—had likely vanished with the forest. The idea was later distilled into the…

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