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Brian M. Boom
Researcher at New York Botanical Garden
Publications - 32
Citations - 1238
Brian M. Boom is an academic researcher from New York Botanical Garden. The author has contributed to research in topics: Botanical garden & Endangered species. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1171 citations.
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Southern Bahian moist forests
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the diversity, frequencies, dominances, and importance of 178 species of trees found at a study site located near Buerarema, Bahia.
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Ecological Importance of Myrtaceae in an Eastern Brazilian Wet Forest
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Distribution patterns and conservation of eastern Brazilian coastal forest tree species
TL;DR: In this paper, the distributions of 127 tree species, each with at least part of their range in the moist coastal forest of eastern Brazil, are analyzed, and the authors support the theory that there are at least two centers of endemism in the coastal forests, one centering around Rio de Janeiro and one in southern Bahia/Rio Doce, Espirito Santo.
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Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity
Quentin D. Wheeler,Sandra Knapp,Dennis W. M. Stevenson,J. Stevenson,Stan Blum,Brian M. Boom,Gary G. Borisy,James L. Buizer,M. R. de Carvalho,A. Cibrian,Michael J. Donoghue,Vinson P. Doyle,E. M. Gerson,Catherine H. Graham,P. Graves,Sara Graves,Robert P. Guralnick,Andrew Hamilton,James Hanken,Wayne Law,Diana L. Lipscomb,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Holly Miller,James S. Miller,Shahid Naeem,Michael J. Novacek,Lawrence M. Page,Norman I. Platnick,Holly Porter-Morgan,Peter H. Raven,M. A. Solis,Antonio G. Valdecasas,S. Van Der Leeuw,Alejandra Vasco,Niki Vermeulen,Johannes C. Vogel,Ramona Walls,Edward O. Wilson,James B. Woolley +38 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that an ambitious goal to describe 10 million species in less than 50 years is attainable based on the strength of 250 years of progress, worldwide collections, existing experts, technological innovation and collaborative teamwork.
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A forest inventory in Amazonian Bolivia
TL;DR: A tree inventory was conducted in a terra firme Amazonian rainforest of northeastern Bolivia to provide information about diversity, frequency, density, and dominance, and species and family importance values were calculated.