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Tracking plant diversity in a changing world


Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation ...

Many species are still unknown to science. Perhaps a third of all land plants are at risk of extinction, including many that are undescribed, or are described ...

Tracking plant diversity in a changing world - ResearchGate

Tracking plant diversity in a changing world ... If ambitious programmes have been launched in recent years to monitor the environment in general and climate in ...

Tracking Plant Diversity in a Changing World - Academia.edu

We analyse a core component of this flora over a 250-year period for trends in taxonomic effort and species discovery linked to ecological and conservation ...

Tracking plant diversity in a changing world - ResearchGate

These studies are part of a broader effort to monitor diversity on Earth. An overview of this global inventory as concerns plant diversity was ...

Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation ...

Many species are still unknown to science. Perhaps a third of all land plants are at risk of extinction, including many that are undescribed, or ...

Monitoring shifts in plant diversity in response to climate change

Our goal was to design a long-term vegetation monitoring program to: (1) assess changes in plant diversity at landscape scales; (2) detect species migrations in ...

A majority of plant diversity hotspots are outside protected areas

Now, a new Stanford study that used machine learning techniques to overcome biases in biodiversity data fills in the once patchy global map of ...

Satellite monitoring of biodiversity moves within reach | ScienceDaily

Global biodiversity assessments require the collection of data on changes in plant biodiversity on an ongoing basis.

Monitoring shifts in plant diversity in response to climate change

Improved sampling designs are needed to detect, monitor, and predict plant migrations and plant diversity changes caused by climate change and other human ...

The effects of defaunation on plants' capacity to track climate change

Together, these results show that defaunation has already limited the ability of animal-dispersed plants in many parts of the world to keep pace ...

Predicting undetected native vascular plant diversity at a global scale

To protect species, we need to know where they are, but high-resolution maps for vascular plants are lacking at a global scale.

UNEP-WCMC scientists shed light on plant diversity 'darkspots' for ...

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) have spearheaded new research identifying 32 global 'darkspots ...

Soil indicators of plant diversity for global ecoregions

Ecoregions are effective tools for global conservation of plant diversity, and soil conditions can affect the plant diversity within ecoregions. Hence, soil ...

Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem ...

Our results highlight the importance of old and biodiverse plant communities for EMF and its stability to extreme climate events in a world ...

Corlett 2016 Plant diversity in a changing world: status trends and ...

We show that 67% of plant species live entirely within regions that comprise 17% of the land surface. Moreover, these regions include most terrestrial ...

Human-caused environmental change: Impacts on plant diversity ...

In the long-term, the “weedy” taxa that became the dominants of the novel conditions imposed by global change should become the progenitors of a series of new ...

Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments

Our results showed that plant diversity increased three out of four soil functions and, consequently, ecosystem multifunctionality.

Areas of plant diversity—What do we know? - Brummitt

Here we review the current state of knowledge of geographical patterns of plant diversity around the world, compare this with our knowledge of ...

Plant Diversity - KeAi Publishing

Plant Diversity (formerly Plant Diversity and Resources) is an international plant science journal that publishes substantial original research and review ...

Vascular Plant Diversity in a Changing World: Global Centres and ...

In contrast to the situation for most other groups of organisms, biodiversity patterns are relatively well understood for plants and vertebrates. However, plant ...