Achieving zero extinction for land plants

RT Corlett - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Despite the importance of plants for humans and the threats to their future, plant
conservation receives far less support compared with vertebrate conservation. Plants are …

rWCVP: a companion R package for the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

MJM Brown, BE Walker, N Black… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is an extremely valuable resource
that is being used to address many fundamental and applied questions in plant science …

Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network

Brazil Flora Group, J Gomes‐da‐Silva, FLR Filardi… - Taxon, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and
the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical …

Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions

A Marcer, AD Chapman, JR Wieczorek… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural history collections (NHCs) represent an enormous and largely untapped wealth of
information on the Earth's biota, made available through GBIF as digital preserved specimen …

Map** Asia Plants: Historical outline and review of sources on floristic diversity in South Asia

C **: The Case of Arbutus in the Old World
S De Santis, F Spada, D Magri - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Species map** methods play a central role in biogeographical questions, as they may
generate a domino effect on further works based on species distribution. In light of the …

A perspective on biodiversity data and applications for spatio-temporally robust spatial planning for area-based conservation

N Takashina, B Kusumoto - Discover Sustainability, 2023 - Springer
The growing availability of high-resolution biodiversity data is enhancing our ability to
implement biodiversity conservation more effectively. Spatial planning has widely utilized …

Back to the starting point: Revised typifications of Linnaean names based on Plumier's Nova plantarum Americanarum genera

P Moroni, A Martínez, MG Nadra, N O'Leary - Taxon, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The typification of 14 Linnaean names is revised. Previous lectotypifications based on
Burman's illustrations in Plantarum Americanarum must be superseded since those …