Phylogenetic endemism of the world’s seed plants

Cai, Lirong; Kreft, Holger; Taylor, Amanda; Schrader, Julian; Dawson, Wayne; Essl, Franz; Kleunen, Mark van; Pergl, Jan; Pyšek, Petr; Winter, Marten; Weigelt, Patrick

doi:10.1101/2022.12.28.522105

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“…visible overall trend of SR decrease was apparent from the southwest towards the northeast in Poland. This trend generally corresponds with the continental pattern of vascular plant SR in Europe(Mutke & Barthlott, 2005;Araújo et al, 2005;Cai et al, 2022; Fig 1a).…”

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Spatial patterns of vascular plant species richness in Poland: relations among species group richness and hot spot locations

Szymura,

Tegegne,

Szymura

2024

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Knowledge of spatial patterns of species richness (SR) is highly relevant for theoretical research in ecology and the development of conservation plans. In Poland, despite a long tradition of botanical surveys, vascular plant SR has not been mapped, nor have the correlations in richness among different plant species groups been explored. Here we used a recently published data set to examine spatial patterns and relationships among the joined SR of vascular plant species, including native species, archeophytes, neophytes, and species with high conservation value (i.e., red list species). The basic spatial unit employed was a 10 × 10 km grid from the Atlas of Distribution of Vascular Plants in Poland (ATPOL). We found that the richness patterns of native species, archeophytes, neophytes, and red-list species were positively correlated. The main patterns of SR and the percentage of particular groups in the joined SR were based on three components: (1) gradient of overall SR, (2) invasion level, and (3) peculiarity of flora in some regions resulting from the high number and proportion of rare species that often have high conservation value. In general, northeastern Poland was species-poor, while the Carpathian Mountain range, the uplands in southern Poland, and some parts of Wisła River valley had the highest SR concentrations. The location of SR hotspots usually did not overlap with the existing system of national parks. The correlations among native SR, high conservation value species, and neophyte SR suggest that biological invasions are among the most important threats to vascular plant diversity in Poland. Finally, we demonstrated that the presented maps, despite likely biases in SR assessments, seem to reflect general ecological gradients influencing vascular plant distribution in Poland.

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Spatial patterns of vascular plant species richness in Poland: relations among species group richness and hot spot locations

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“…In this study, we investigated the effect of climate change on the potentially climatically suitable area of plant species native to the Canary Islands, an archipelago renowned for its exceptional plant endemism (Cai et al, 2022; Fernández‐Palacios & Whittaker, 2008). As hypothesised, we found that single‐island endemic species that currently occur in predominantly arid regions would have the highest losses of climatically suitable area.…”

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Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands

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Barbosa

et al. 2023

Diversity and Distributions

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AimOceanic islands possess unique floras with high proportions of endemic species. Island floras are expected to be severely affected by changing climatic conditions as species on islands have limited distribution ranges and small population sizes and face the constraints of insularity to track their climatic niches. We aimed to assess how ongoing climate change affects the range sizes of oceanic island plants, identifying species of particular conservation concern.LocationCanary Islands, Spain.MethodsWe combined species occurrence data from single‐island endemic, archipelago endemic and nonendemic native plant species of the Canary Islands with data on current and future climatic conditions. Bayesian Additive Regression Trees were used to assess the effect of climate change on species distributions; 71% (n = 502 species) of the native Canary Island species had models deemed good enough. To further assess how climate change affects plant functional strategies, we collected data on woodiness and succulence.ResultsSingle‐island endemic species were projected to lose a greater proportion of their climatically suitable area (x ̃ = −0.36) than archipelago endemics (x ̃ = −0.28) or nonendemic native species (x ̃ = −0.26), especially on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, which are expected to experience less annual precipitation in the future. Moreover, herbaceous single‐island endemics were projected to gain less and lose more climatically suitable area than insular woody single‐island endemics. By contrast, we found that succulent single‐island endemics and nonendemic natives gain more and lose less climatically suitable area.Main ConclusionsWhile all native species are of conservation importance, we emphasise single‐island endemic species not characterised by functional strategies associated with water use efficiency. Our results are particularly critical for other oceanic island floras that are not constituted by such a vast diversity of insular woody species as the Canary Islands.

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GIFT – an R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits

Denelle

Weigelt

Kreft

2023

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1. Advancing knowledge of biodiversity requires open-access global databases and workflows. This appears particularly crucial for plants, as ongoing changes pose major threats to this central group of organisms. Having large-scale information on plant distributions, functional traits and evolutionary history will enable the scientific community to improve its understanding of the patterns and drivers of plant diversity on a global scale. 2. The Global Inventory of Floras and Traits (GIFT) is a global database of regional plant checklists that has proven successful in documenting biogeographical and geographical patterns of plants. Since the release of the first version of GIFT, the database kept on expanding. We introduce GIFT version 3.0, which contains 5,169 checklists referring to 3,400 regions. These checklists include a total of 371,148 land plant species, mostly vascular plants, of which 354,848 are accepted species names, and 109 functional traits. This new version uses new resources for taxonomic name standardization, is matched to a new plant phylogeny, comes with a new trait aggregation workflow, and includes additional environmental variables. 3. We also present the GIFT R-package, which contains all necessary functions to retrieve distributional, functional, phylogenetic, and environmental data from the GIFT database. The package comes with a dedicated website, https://biogeomacro.github.io/GIFT/, which includes three rich vignettes to guide users in retrieving data from GIFT. 4. The recent development of GIFT and its associated R-package provide ecologists with access to one of the largest plant databases. This will foster research into regional to global patterns of plant diversity and their underlying mechanisms. Proper versioning of the database and the ability to retrieve and cite data from any previous and current instance of the GIFT database will ensure the reproducibility of studies that utilize it.

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Phylogenetic endemism of the world’s seed plants

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Spatial patterns of vascular plant species richness in Poland: relations among species group richness and hot spot locations

Spatial patterns of vascular plant species richness in Poland: relations among species group richness and hot spot locations

Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands

GIFT – an R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits

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