A wide array of medicinal plants in India, primarily used by locals for health care, have found
wide acceptance and adoption globally (either directly or processed) due to distinct …

Understanding of the global significance of Australia's biodiversity is also on the increase.
This comprehensive review of the endemism of Australia's plants and animals shows that a …

An updated inventory of the native vascular plants of Mexico records 23,314 species,
distributed in 2,854 genera, 297 families, and 73 orders. The flora includes 1,039 species of …

The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of c. 6,000 European species
(mammals, reptiles, amphibians, dragonflies, butterflies, freshwater fishes, and selected …

Nearly half the world's vascular plant species and one‐third of terrestrial vertebrates are
endemic to 25 “hotspots” of biodiversity, each of which has at least 1500 endemic plant …

Habitat destruction, especially of the humid forests in the tropics, is the main cause of the
species extinctions happening now. New work documents the uneven, highly clumped …

Despite the severe threats to plant habitats and high levels of extinction risk for plant species
in many parts of the world, plant conservation priorities are often poorly represented in …

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches,
widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and …

Background Conservation through reserves alone is now considered unlikely to achieve
protection of plant species necessary to mitigate direct losses of habitat and the pervasive …

This analysis of the information contained in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
provides an insight into the status and trends of the world's species of plants and animals …