Joppa, Lucas N., Roberts, David L., Myers, Norman, Pimm, Stuart L. (2011) Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (32). pp. 13171-13176. ISSN 0027-8424. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1109389108) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:31369)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109389108 |
Abstract
For most organisms, the number of described species considerably
underestimates how many exist. This is itself a problem and causes
secondary complications given present high rates of species extinction.
Known numbers of flowering plants form the basis of biodiversity
“hotspots”—places where high levels of endemism and
habitat loss coincide to produce high extinction rates. Howdifferent
would conservation priorities be if the catalog were complete? Approximately
15% more species of flowering plant are likely still undiscovered.
They are almost certainly rare, and depending on where
they live, suffer high risks of extinction from habitat loss and global
climate disruption. By using a model that incorporates taxonomic
effort over time, regions predicted to contain large numbers of undiscovered
species are already conservation priorities. Our results
leave global conservation priorities more or less intact, but suggest
considerably higher levels of species imperilment than previously
acknowledged.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1073/pnas.1109389108 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | global priorities; species discovery; angiosperm |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation > DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology) |
Depositing User: | Shelley Urwin |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2012 12:25 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31369 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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