Advancing knowledge of biodiversity requires global openaccess databases. Having large
scale information on plant distributions, functional traits and evolutionary history will enable …

Although originating from a common Gondwanan flora, the diversity and composition of the
floras of Africa and South America have greatly diverged since continental breakup of Africa …

More than 70% of all vascular plants lack conservation status assessments. We aimed to
address this shortfall in knowledge of species extinction risk by using the World Checklist of …

The tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological distributions (phylogenetic niche
conservatism) is thought to influence which species from a species pool can persist in a …

Beta diversity (β-diversity) is the scalar between local (α) and regional (γ) diversity.
Understanding geographic patterns of β-diversity is central to ecology, biogeography, and …

Many thousands of plant species remain unknown to science, most being range-restricted
and/or rare–both factors that increase extinction risk. Here, we show that more than 75% of …

Anthropogenic introductions are known to be changing the structure of global
phytogeographical regions (phytoregions), but previous studies have been limited by …

Endemism of lineages lies at the core of understanding variation in community composition
among geographic regions because it reflects how speciation, extinction, and dispersal …

C₄ is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in flowering plants. It
evolved independently more than 61 times in multiple angiosperm lineages and consists of …

Gardens hold untapped potential for participatory biodiversity conservation. Conservation
gardening has recently emerged as a way to foster declining native plant species in urban …