Brazil has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. Images of immense
burnt areas or dead animals that failed to escape the 2020 wildfires have shocked the world …

An updated inventory of Brazilian seed plants is presented and offers important insights into
the country's biodiversity. This work started in 2010, with the publication of the Plants and …

Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Abstract The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the
Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and …

Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the
Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published checklists …

The application of a functional trait‐based approach to ecological restoration is receiving
growing attention worldwide, but lack of knowledge on functional traits and how they link to …

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a rapid rise in the mobilization of
digital biodiversity data. This has thrust natural history museums into the forefront of …

Plant checklists constitute the fundamental knowledge on which further hypotheses of
ecology, evolution, and biodiversity conservation are built. Here, we compiled a …

A recent controversy concerns whether plant traits that are assumed to be adaptations to fire
originally evolved in response to selective factors other than fire. We contribute to this …

We present revised estimates of the numbers of accepted species of flowering plants
(369,434), seed plants (370,492), vascular plants (383,671) and land plants (403,911) …