The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase

By M. Christenhusz, J. Byng. 2016

1,890 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Tixier
2. V. Sosa
3. P. Fritsch
4. Thomas Borsch
5. Thomas Haevermans
6. M. Sosef
7. S. Knapp
8. Erik Smets

In Plant Science

1. M. Tixier
2. Alan Paton
3. V. Sosa
4. Thomas Borsch
5. Thomas Haevermans
6. S. Knapp
7. Daniel L. Nickrent

Citations in the corpus

• World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants (2020, background): “…significant numbers of species are still being discovered and described as new to science every year (on average 2000 species of vascular plants per year in the last two decades; Christenhusz & Byng, 2016), so there is a constant need for the incorporation of taxa into the Taxonomic Backbone.”
• Parasitic angiosperms: How often and how many? (2020, positive): “The results from applying the third criterion are reflected in the reduction of the number of family names over the course of the APG series (462 to 416) and by the recent tabulation by Christenhusz & Byng (2016).”
• Counting counts: revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates (2016, background): “Summing published estimates or counts for each taxonomic group was the basis for publications by Stebbins (1974), Thorne (2000, 2002) and, most recently, Christenhusz & Byng (2016).”
• Towards Advances in Medicinal Plant Antimicrobial Activity: A Review Study on Challenges and Future Perspectives (2021, background): “The total estimated number of plants is approximately 374,000 [4] in comparison to 28,187 medicinal species used by humans [5].”
• Predatory Mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in Agro-Ecosystems and Conservation Biological Control: A Review and Explorative Approach for Forecasting Plant-Predatory Mite Interactions and Mite Dispersal (2018, background): “There are more than 374,000 plant species (Christenhusz and Byng, 2016) and 2,400 predatory mite species (Demite et al.”