Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants.

Plants provide fundamental support systems for life on Earth and are the basis for all terrestrial ecosystems; a decline in plant diversity will be detrimental to all other groups of organisms including humans. Decline in plant diversity has been hard to quantify, due to the huge numbers of known an...

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Main Authors: Neil A Brummitt, Steven P Bachman, Janine Griffiths-Lee, Maiko Lutz, Justin F Moat, Aljos Farjon, John S Donaldson, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Thomas R Meagher, Sara Albuquerque, Elina Aletrari, A Kei Andrews, Guy Atchison, Elisabeth Baloch, Barbara Barlozzini, Alice Brunazzi, Julia Carretero, Marco Celesti, Helen Chadburn, Eduardo Cianfoni, Chris Cockel, Vanessa Coldwell, Benedetta Concetti, Sara Contu, Vicki Crook, Philippa Dyson, Lauren Gardiner, Nadia Ghanim, Hannah Greene, Alice Groom, Ruth Harker, Della Hopkins, Sonia Khela, Poppy Lakeman-Fraser, Heather Lindon, Helen Lockwood, Christine Loftus, Debora Lombrici, Lucia Lopez-Poveda, James Lyon, Patricia Malcolm-Tompkins, Kirsty McGregor, Laura Moreno, Linda Murray, Keara Nazar, Emily Power, Mireya Quiton Tuijtelaars, Ruth Salter, Robert Segrott, Hannah Thacker, Leighton J Thomas, Sarah Tingvoll, Gemma Watkinson, Katerina Wojtaszekova, Eimear M Nic Lughadha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4529080?pdf=render