A New World of plants
A searchable database collates information on all known vascular plants in the Americas On page 1614 of this issue, Ulloa Ulloa et al. ( 1 ) provide the first comprehensive overview of vascular plant diversity in the New World. The study, which includes a 2600-page online checklist and a continuousl...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2017-12, Vol.358 (6370), p.1535-1536 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A searchable database collates information on all known vascular plants in the Americas
On page 1614 of this issue, Ulloa Ulloa
et al.
(
1
) provide the first comprehensive overview of vascular plant diversity in the New World. The study, which includes a 2600-page online checklist and a continuously updated, searchable database [Vascular Plants of the Americas, see (
2
)] is a monumental achievement that will be of enormous interest to conservation biologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, biogeographers, land managers, and governmental officials around the world. |
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| ISSN: | 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.aar4191 |