Emily Beech, Malin Rivers, Sara Oldfield, Paul Smith
This article presents, for the first time, an overview of all known tree species by scientific name and country level distribution, and describes an online database—GlobalTreeSearch—that provides access to this information. Based on our comprehensive analysis of published data sources and expert inp...
Melanie‐Jayne R. Howes, Cassandra L. Quave, Jérôme Collemare, Evangelos C. Tatsis et al.
Societal Impact Statement Plants and fungi have provided, or inspired, key pharmaceuticals for global health challenges, including cancer, heart disease, dementia, and malaria, and are valued as traditional medicines worldwide. Global demand for medicinal plants and fungi has threatened certain spec...
Axel Hochkirch, Melanie Bilz, Catarina Ferreira, Anja Danielczak et al.
Biodiversity loss is a major global challenge and minimizing extinction rates is the goal of several multilateral environmental agreements. Policy decisions require comprehensive, spatially explicit information on species' distributions and threats. We present an analysis of the conservation status ...
Jean Linsky, Emily E. D. Coffey, Emily Beech, Malin Rivers et al.
Societal Impact Statement Comprehensive Red List assessments act as valuable resources for informing protected area designations, national protected species legislation and action strategies, and international biodiversity agreements, yet they are lacking for many plant families. Magnoliaceae is one...
Félix Forest, Ruth Brown, Sven Buerki, Jonathan F. Colville et al.
Abstract Extinction results in not only loss of species, but also loss of the unique evolutionary history that they represent and the irreplaceable features they exhibit. There is broad consensus regarding the necessity to optimise the preservation of the tree of life by including evolutionary infor...
Félix Forest, Ruth Brown, Sven Buerki, Jonathan F. Colville et al.
Global biodiversity policies recognize the necessity to preserve evolutionary lineages, as their diversity underpins current and future benefits to people and the future of life on Earth. Plants are largely absent from global biodiversity assessments, resulting in a taxonomic imbalance that has unde...
H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Natasha L. M. Mannion, Jonah Morreale, Domitilla Raimondo et al.
Abstract Target 4 of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) calls for urgent management actions to halt human⍰induced extinctions and enable species recovery. However, most Parties face substantial challenges in determining which species require urgent management actions. Here, w...
Malin Rivers, Emily Beech, Alex Hudson, Cristina Coletto et al.
Tree diversity is fundamental to the ecosystem resilience, yet tree species information remains insufficiently incorporated into global restoration strategies. The Global Tree Assessment, coordinated by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group, ...
James Rosindell, Domitilla Raimondo, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Jonathan F. Colville et al.
Global biodiversity policies recognize the necessity to preserve evolutionary lineages as their diversity underpins current and future benefits to people and the future of life on earth. Plants are mostly absent from global biodiversity assessments resulting in a taxonomic imbalance that has undermi...
Pyone Myat Thu
The border that divides is the border that connects. In Malini Sur's account of the North-eastern India–Bangladesh corridor, long-standing cross-border mobility, social and cultural interconnectedness, human and non-human relations and resource trade dynamics are transforming in the shadows of incre...