ReviewPlant diversity2016
Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation needs.
Review in Plant diversity, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 419 citations in OpenAlex.
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- New Species Discoveries Refine Global Biodiversity Patterns.Ecology letters · 2026Article
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- Ethnobotanical study of edible underground storage organ plants in Youjiang District, Baise City, Guangxi, China.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- Predicting the Habitat Suitability for Endangered Tree SpeciesEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Unraveling the Genome of Epidendrum Fulgens: Demographic History and Gene Family Dynamics in a Resilient Neotropical Orchid.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Genome-wide association study bridging genomics-phenomics gap in natural plant populations.Journal of applied genetics · 2026Review
- Strategies for the Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Review
- The Effect of Forest Habitats on the Traits and Demographic Structure ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Conservation Challenges for Endemic Vascular Plants: Exploring Large-Scale Patterns in Climate-Driven Distribution and Distinctive Functional Traits.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The interplay among space, environment, and gene flow drives genetic differentiation in endemic Baja California Agave sobria subspecies.American journal of botany · 2025Article
- Potential risk of dipterocarps in the marginal Asian rainforests: low population size and high genomic erosion.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Impact of Land-Use Change on Vascular Epiphytes: A Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Floristic Analysis of Vascular Plants in the Ziwuling Mountains, Shaanxi Province.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A reassessment of the "hard-steps" model for the evolution of intelligent life.Science advances · 2025Review
- Phylogenetic Perspectives and Ethnobotanical Insights on Wild Edible Plants of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Low and facultative mycorrhization of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador.PloS one · 2025Article
- Rooting for survival: how plants tackle a challenging environment through a diversity of root forms and functions.Plant physiology · 2024Review
21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency-or the funding-that drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us. There are an estimated 500,000 species of land plants (angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns, lycophytes, and bryophytes), with diversity strongly concentrated in the humid tropics. 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 but otherwise data deficient. There have been few known global extinctions so far, but many additional species have not been recorded recently and may be extinct. Although only a minority of plant species have a specific human use, many more play important roles in natural ecosystems and the services they provide, and rare species are more likely to have unusual traits that could be useful in the future. The major threats to plant diversity include habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation, overexploitation, invasive species, pollution, and anthropogenic climate change. Conservation of plant diversity is a massive task if viewed globally, but the combination of a well-designed and well-managed protected area system and
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