Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco

KUMERLE TOBIAS; ALTRICHTER MARIANA; BALDI GERMÁN; CABIDO MARCELO; CAMINO MICAELA; CUELLAR ERIKA; DECARRE JULIETA; GASPARRI IGNACIO; DIAZ SANDRA; GAVIER PIZARRO GREGORIO; GIORDANO ANTHONY; GUINZBURG RUBÉN; GRAU RICARDO; LEYNAUD GERARDO C.; JOBBAGY ESTEBAN; MACHI LEANDRO; MASTRANGELO MATÍAS; MATECUCCI SILVIA; NOSS ANDREW; PARUELO JOSÉ; PIQUER-RODRÍGUEZMARIA ; ROMEROMUÑOZ,ALFREDO ; SEMPER-PASCUAL ASUNCIÓN ; THOMPSONJEFFREY ; TORRELA SEBASTIÁN; TORRES RICARDO; VOLANTE JOSÉ; YANOSKY ALBERTO; ZAK MARCELO

SCIENCE

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE

Lugar: Washington DC, USA; Año: 2017 vol. 355 p. 465 - 465

0036-8075

Tropical and Subtropical dry forests around the globe are experiencing rapid clearing and concomitant biodiversity loss (1). In their Research Article ?Plantdiversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications? (23 September 2016, p. 1383), DRYFLOR et al. highlight the often underappreciated, yet exceptional floristic richness and uniqueness of these forests, and they provide compelling arguments for ramping up efforts to protect them. We applaud the DRYFLOR team for their seminal work, but we are also concerned about the exclusion of the Gran Chaco, frequently considered the world?s largest continuous tropical dry forest region.