The Tropical Flora Remains Undercollected

By G. Prance, H. Beentje, J. Dransfield, R. Johns. 2000

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology

1. T. Brooks
2. C. Hilton‐Taylor
3. N. Burgess
4. P. Raven
5. A. Rylands
6. Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
7. John‐Arvid Grytnes
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. C. Hilton‐Taylor
2. N. Burgess
3. P. Raven
4. A. Rylands
5. Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
6. John‐Arvid Grytnes
7. John H. Beaman
8. Tuuli Toivonen

In Plant Science

1. C. Hilton‐Taylor
2. John‐Arvid Grytnes
3. Tuuli Toivonen
4. T. Brooks
5. J. Pilgrim
6. R. Dirzo

Citations in the corpus

• Implications of collection patterns of botanical specimens on their usefulness for conservation planning: an example of two neotropical plant families (Moraceae and Myristicaceae) in Peru (2007, background): “These are very rough figures and tropical forests remain largely undercollected (Prance et al. 2000).”
• Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity (2002, background): “There is considerable variability in the accuracy of these estimates, especially for plants, but in every case they can be considered conservative because many species undoubtedly remain to be described (Prance et al. 2000).”
• Global State of Biodiversity and Loss (2003, background): “(22), taking as their base the traditional estimate of 250,000 valid, described species, noting that an average of 2350 species had been described each year in the preceding nine-year period, and considering the rate of discovery of novelties throughout the world, estimated that perhaps 50,000 to 70”
• Angiospermas em remanescentes de floresta montana no sul da Bahia, Brasil (2009, background): “O elevado número de espécies não descritas e de outras até então pouco conhecidas no sul da Bahia atesta para o ainda insuficiente conhecimento florístico de áreas tropicais, neste caso especificamente da Mata Atlântica (Prance 2001, Prance et al. 2000).”
• Elevational species richness patterns for vascular plants on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo (2006, background): “There are many problems in the estimation of species richness in tropical areas, because the flora and fauna are often poorly described and high diversity complicates species identification (Prance et al., 2000; Phillips et al., 2004).”
• Analysing botanical collecting effort in Amazonia and correcting for it in species range estimation (2007, background): “A severe problem in these discussions is that there are very few NHC data in relation to the amount of species and the size of the area (Daly & Prance, 1989; Kress et al., 1998; Funk et al., 1999; Prance et al., 2000).”
• Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania (2014, background): “, 2011a), with the gap in data availability and updates being particularly severe in the tropics (Prance et al., 2000).”
• Conservation and the botanist effect (2011, unknown): “Declining support for basic biodiversity inventories hits the tropics particularly hard because their biodiversity remains severely understudied (Prance et al., 2000) and resources for training and employing biodiversity recorders are chronically inadequate.”