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  The ‘Top 100’ most-mentioned tree species from the literature for tropical and subtropical regions have been data-mined and the results published. A team of researchers from World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Scotland’s Rural College and the University of Copenhagen have used a novel approach to explore which trees are currently considered to be most important by people engaged in promoting their use. The research team ‘mined’ information from a range of online global and regional databases on tree use to prepare a list of the Top 100 most-mentioned species. To the best of their knowledge, this has not been done before. ‘Our premise was that the inclusion of a tree species in any particular “use” database can be interpreted as an indication of its perceived global usefulness and value for planting,’ explained Roeland Kindt, lead author of the study, published as a working paper by ICRAF. ‘The level of consensus across databases, measured as the frequency of overall

Nairobi areaUnited kingdomRoeland kindtScotland rural collegeUniversity of copenhagenWorld agroforestryRural collegeநைரோபி பரப்பளவுஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம்ஸ்காட்லாந்து கிராமப்புற கல்லூரிபல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் கோபெந்ஹேகந்கிராமப்புற கல்லூரி