Nature World: There are about 390 billion individual trees in greater Amazonia, according to estimates based on over 10 years of data. The region has 16,000 tree species but, over half of all trees belong to 227 “hyperdominant” tree species.
Despite being home to the world’s largest carbon sink, vast regions of the Amazon have largely remained unexplored. The latest study was conducted by over 100 experts who contributed data from over from 1,100 forestry surveys. Greater Amazonia includes Amazon Basin and…