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Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants
2015
PLoS ONE
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 and yet to be discovered species and the lack of an adequate baseline assessment of extinction risk against which to track changes. The biodiversity of many remote parts of the world remains poorly
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135152
pmid:26252495
pmcid:PMC4529080
fatcat:o6p2rwuakjefzp2fdfyagcrptq