Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 19; no. 8; pp. 992 - 1006
• Main Authors: Meyer, Carsten, Weigelt, Patrick, Kreft, Holger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2016
• Subjects: biogeography; Conservation biology; Conservation status; Data bias; data deficiency; data uncertainty; Demography; ecology; Ecosystem; embryophytes; Environmental Monitoring; Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Global Strategy for Plant Conservation; herbarium specimens; Information Services; knowledge gaps; livelihood; monitoring; Plant ecology; plant taxonomy; Plants - classification; species distributions; Species Specificity; survey effort; Taxonomy; uncertainty; Wallacean shortfall; species distributions; data uncertainty; Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Data bias; herbarium specimens; survey effort; Wallacean shortfall; knowledge gaps; Global Strategy for Plant Conservation; data deficiency

Plants are a hyperdiverse clade that plays a key role in maintaining ecological and evolutionary processes as well as human livelihoods. Biases, gaps and uncertainties in plant occurrence information remain a central problem in ecology and conservation, but these limitations remain largely unassesse...