All species are hierarchically related to one another, and we use taxonomic names to label
the nodes in this hierarchy. Taxonomic data is becoming increasingly available on the web …

Background The digitization of biodiversity data is leading to the widespread application of
taxon names that are superfluous, ambiguous or incorrect, resulting in mismatched records …

Abstract Background and Aims Understanding the evolutionary patterns of ecologically
relevant traits is a central goal in plant biology. However, for most important traits, we lack …

A catalogue is presented of plant names in use in the Caatinga Phytogeographical Domain
(CPD), the largest semiarid ecoregion of South America. We compiled all pubished papers …

The campo rupestre is a Neotropical OCBIL (old, climatically buffered infertile landscape), a
grassy-shrub vegetation with high species richness and endemism, characterized by rocky …

Old, climate-buffered infertile landscapes (Ocbils) have attracted increasing levels of interest
in recent years because of their exceptionally diverse plant communities. Brazil's campos …

Abstract The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) set an ambitious target to
achieve a conservation assessment for all known plant species by 2020. We consolidated …

Aim Numerous studies have reported changes in first flowering day (FFD‐changes) in
response to changes in climate. However, regarding the direction (advances versus delays) …

Aims I aim to review vegetation plot data discovery, the major international efforts to
integrate these data, some of the remaining barriers to data integration, reuse and synthesis …

We have analysed the global patterns of moss species diversity based on a dataset created
from checklists, online databases, and herbarium records. We collected more than 100 000 …