Many of Earth's tree species exist only in single countries |

2 Jul 2021

More than half of all tree species exist only in a single country

Many of Earth’s tree species exist only in single countries

Many of Earth’s tree species exist only in single countriesFew years before we did not have any idea that how many tree species are there in the world. A comparatively recent study, 'Global Tree Search' collected a database of tree species and their country distributions.

The study found the fact that quite half of all tree species are endemic. This means they found only in a single country. Of all the countries, Brazil has the most tree species in the world - 8,715 species. That is followed by Colombia (5,776) and then, Indonesia (5,142).

They did not count the Arctic and the Antarctic region (which haven't got any trees). The region with the fewest tree species is that the Nearctic region of North America. They have fewer than 1,400 species.

Scientists calculated "tree wealth" or "tree resources" which estimates the number of trees in each country. They have also mentioned many factors such as the country's physical size and population.
Countries with the highest number of trees
However, if we are looking at the total number of trees (not species), Russia has the highest. It has about 642 billion trees. The next is North America with 318 billion trees and then, Brazil with 302 billion.

Another country that has vital tree wealth is China (140 billion). After that are, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (100 billion), Indonesia (81 billion), and Australia (77 billion).

Overall, there seem to be about 60,065 completely different species of trees on Earth.

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