The World Flora Online, Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, and the Species Plantarum Programme: Flora of the World: Compatible Concepts or Mutually Exclusive Mandates?

Smith, Gideon F.; Klopper, Ronell R.; Jackson, Peter; Crouch, Neil R.

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“…But different attitudes to collaboration in the current community are also relevant, shifting more and more from projects where an individual author has worked alone on a monograph for many years to teams that approach a taxonomic synthesis in the sense of integrative taxonomy. G.F. Smith & al. (2017) have accentuated the compatibility of the traditional monographic SPPFW-approach with WFO, but they also pointed out that SPPFW has failed to gain sufficient traction in the botanic community.…”

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“…G.F. Smith & al. (2017) have accentuated the compatibility of the traditional monographic SPPFW‐approach with WFO, but they also pointed out that SPPFW has failed to gain sufficient traction in the botanic community. However, we also have to acknowledge that the commitments by many institutions worldwide helped to implement the WFO.…”

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World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants

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Berendsohn

Dalcin

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It is time to synthesize the knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. The adoption of an updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) in 2011 provided the essential impetus for the development of the World Flora Online (WFO) project. The project represents an international, coordinated effort by the botanical community to achieve GSPC Target 1, an electronic Flora of all plants. It will be a first-ever unique and authoritative global source of information on the world's plant diversity, compiled, curated, moderated and updated by an expert and specialist-based community (Taxonomic Expert Networks-"TENs"covering a taxonomic group such as family or order) and actively managed by those who have compiled and contributed the data it includes. Full credit and acknowledgement will be given to the original sources, allowing users to refer back to the primary data. A strength of the project is that it is led and endorsed by a global consortium of more than 40 leading botanical institutions worldwide. A first milestone for producing the World Flora Online is to be accomplished by the end of 2020, but the WFO Consortium is committed to continuing the WFO programme beyond 2020 when it will develop its full impact as the authoritative source of information on the world's plant biodiversity.

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World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants

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“…Elsewhere too, increasingly affordable and efficient publication and dissemination technology available for producing taxonomic and other outputs has benefitted from the growth of the worldwide web, with a concomitant proliferation of information being made readily available online. This includes, most recently at a global scale, the publication of electronic, web‐based Floras, often with voluminous citation of type and other specimens (Smith & al., 2017). Taxonomy, in its broadest definition, is mostly now accessible—not always freely, though—to anyone, in particular the many end‐users of such information.…”

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Plant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy: Is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?

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Figueiredo

Victor

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In recent years the poaching of, especially, succulent plants from the wild in South Africa has developed into an enormous, illegal industry, with the number of such plants confiscated increasing annually by over 250%. It has been estimated that more than 1.5 million plants have been illegally removed from the wild in the past three years. This conservation crisis has seen an unprecedented surge in poaching of representatives of families such as the Aizoaceae, Anacampserotaceae, Asphodelaceae, Crassulaceae, and several others, given that South Africa and neighbouring countries are host to about 45% of the known succulents of the world. Apart from annotated, geo‐referenced (type and other) herbarium specimens, further easily accessible sources of information on accurate occurrences of species are type localities published in protologues of plant names, and online resources that aim to mobilise biodiversity data. We propose drastic measures regarding the non‐disclosure of accurate locality information on specimens, in the literature, and on websites.

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South American Plant Chromosome Numbers Databases: The Information We Have and the Information We Lack on the Most Plant-Diverse Continent

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Costa,

Souza

et al. 2023

Methods in Molecular Biology

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The World Flora Online, Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, and the Species Plantarum Programme: Flora of the World: Compatible Concepts or Mutually Exclusive Mandates?

Cited by 3 publications

References 90 publications

World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants

World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants

Plant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy: Is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?

South American Plant Chromosome Numbers Databases: The Information We Have and the Information We Lack on the Most Plant-Diverse Continent

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