Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country

作者：Rachael V. Gallagher, Stuart Allen, Rafaël Govaerts, Malin Rivers, Andrew P. Allen, David A. Keith, Cory Merow, Brian Maitner, Nathalie Butt, Tony D. Auld, Brian J. Enquist, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Ian J. Wright, Jonathon C. O. Mifsud, Silvia Espinosa‐Ruiz, Hugh P. Possingham, Vanessa M. Adams · 发表于：Plants People Planet · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1002/ppp3.10369 · 被引用次数：53 · 研究领域：Animal and Plant Science Education、Plant and animal studies、Insect Utilization and Effects

Societal Impact Statement Plants are fundamental to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and are key to human livelihoods. To protect plant diversity, systematic approaches to conservation assessment are needed. Many nations have legislation or other policy instruments that seek to protect biodiversity (including plants), and species‐level assessments are essential for identifying the most threatened species that require special and immediate protection measures. Some plants occur in only one place (for instance, a single country) and here we have estimated how many of these ‘endemic’ species have had their threats assessed in each country or close country‐equivalent worldwide. We show that the level of assessment completion is only weakly related to the income of countries or the likely level of threat that species face. Summary The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation ambitiously called for an assessment of the conservation status of all recognised plant taxa by 2020. This target was not met in the short term. Nevertheless, the need for conservation assessments remains urgent as plants go extinct and face increasing threats from human impacts on the biosphere. Here, the completeness of threat assessments for endemic flora in 179 countries or their close equivalents was assessed. To do so, distribution information from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants was combined with assessments collated in the ThreatSearch database. The completeness of assessments was expected to be...