GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

• Published in: Journal of biogeography Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 16 - 43
• Main Authors: Weigelt, Patrick, König, Christian, Kreft, Holger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2020
• Subjects: angiosperms; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Check lists; Coverage; Flowers & plants; functional biogeography; functional traits; Geographical distribution; information sources; inventories; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; plant checklists; Plant species; Plantae; socioeconomics; Species composition; species diversity; vascular plants

Aim To understand how functional traits and evolutionary history shape the geographic distribution of plant life on Earth, we need to integrate high‐quality and global‐scale distribution data with functional and phylogenetic information. Large‐scale distribution data for plants are, however, often r...