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While most scientific research fields maintain open-access data policies, access to forestry data remains limited.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Scientists at Purdue University have embarked on a groundbreaking endeavor to create a comprehensive spatial database of planted forests in East Asia.

Purdue University has led study that analyzed database of unrivaled size and detail to understand geographic variation of local tree species richness.

According to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI), Earth could have as many as 73,000 tree species, with 9,200 species yet to be discovered. The [...]

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South America contains about 43 per cent of the worlds tree species and the highest number of rare ones, according to a three-year international project involving almost 150 scientists.

New research suggest that there are approximately 64,100 known species of trees in the world, with 14 percent more yet to be discovered