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New Guinea has the world's richest island flora

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Camara-Leret, Rodrigo [1, 2] ; Frodin, David G. [2] ; Adema, Frits [3] ; Anderson, Christiane [4] ; Appelhans, Marc S. [5] ; Argent, George [6] ; Guerrero, Susana Arias [3] ; Ashton, Peter [2] ; Baker, William J. [2] ; Barfod, Anders S. [7] ; Barrington, David [8] ; Borosova, Renata [2] ; Bramley, Gemma L. C. [2] ; Briggs, Marie [2] ; Buerki, Sven [9] ; Cahen, Daniel [2] ; Callmander, Martin W. [10] ; Cheek, Martin [2] ; Chen, Cheng-Wei ; Conn, Barry J. [11] ; Coode, Mark J. E. [2] ; Darbyshire, Iain [2] ; Dawson, Sally [2] ; Dransfield, John [2] ; Drinkell, Clare [2] ; Duyfjes, Brigitta [3] ; Ebihara, Atsushi [12] ; Ezedin, Zacky [13, 14] ; Fu, Long-Fei [15] ; Gideon, Osia [16] ; Girmansyah, Deden [17] ; Govaerts, Rafael [2] ; Fortune-Hopkins, Helen [2] ; Hassemer, Gustavo [18] ; Hay, Alistair [19] ; Heatubun, Charlie D. [2, 20, 21] ; Hind, D. J. Nicholas [2] ; Hoch, Peter [22] ; Homot, Peter [23] ; Hovenkamp, Peter [3] ; Hughes, Mark [6] ; Jebb, Matthew [24] ; Jennings, Laura [2] ; Jimbo, Tiberius [23] ; Kessler, Michael [25] ; Kiew, Ruth [26] ; Knapp, Sandra [27] ; Lamei, Penniel [23] ; Lehnert, Marcus [28, 29] ; Lewis, Gwilym P. [2] ; Linder, Hans Peter [25] ; Lindsay, Stuart [30] ; Low, Yee Wen [31, 32, 2] ; Lucas, Eve [2] ; Mancera, Jeffrey P. [33] ; Monro, Alexandre K. [2] ; Moore, Alison [2] ; Middleton, David J. [2] ; Nagamasu, Hidetoshi [34] ; Newman, Mark F. [6] ; Lughadha, Eimear Nic [2] ; Melo, Pablo H. A. [35] ; Ohlsen, Daniel J. [36, 37] ; Pannell, Caroline M. [2, 37, 38] ; Parris, Barbara [39] ; Pearce, Laura [2] ; Penneys, Darin S. [40] ; Perrie, Leon R. [41] ; Petoe, Peter [7, 2] ; Poulsen, Axel Dalberg [6] ; Prance, Ghillean T. [2] ; Quakenbush, J. Peter [42] ; Raes, Niels [3] ; Rodda, Michele [32] ; Rogers, Zachary S. [43] ; Schuiteman, Andre [2] ; Schwartsburd, Pedro [44] ; Scotland, Robert W. [37] ; Simmons, Mark P. [45] ; Simpson, David A. [2, 46] ; Stevens, Peter [22] ; Sundue, Michael [8] ; Testo, Weston [47] ; Trias-Blasi, Anna [2] ; Turner, Ian [32, 2] ; Utteridge, Timothy [2] ; Walsingham, Lesley [2] ; Webber, Bruce L. [48, 49] ; Wei, Ran [50] ; Weiblen, George D. [13, 51] ; Weigend, Maximilian [28] ; Weston, Peter [19] ; de Wilde, Willem [3] ; Wilkie, Peter [6] ; Wilmot-Dear, Christine M. [2] ; Wilson, Hannah P. [52, 6] ; Wood, I, John R. ; Zhang, Li-Bing [22, 53] ; van Welzen, Peter C. [3, 54]
Total Authors: 99
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[1] Univ Zurich, Dept Evolutionary Biol & Environm Studies, Zurich - Switzerland
[2] I, Royal Bot Gardens, London - England
[3] Nat Biodivers Ctr, Leiden - Netherlands
[4] Univ Michigan Herbarium, Ann Arbor, MI - USA
[5] Univ Gottingen, Dept Systemat Biodivers & Evolut Plants, Albrecht von Haller Inst Plant Sci, Gottingen - Germany
[6] Royal Bot Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian - Scotland
[7] Aarhus Univ, Dept Biosci, Aarhus - Denmark
[8] Univ Vermont, Dept Plant Biol, Pringle Herbarium, Burlington, VT - USA
[9] Boise State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Boise, ID 83725 - USA
[10] Conservatoire & Jardin Bot Ville Geneve, Chambesy - Switzerland
[11] Univ Sydney, Sch Life & Environm Sci, Sydney, NSW - Australia
[12] Natl Museum Nat & Sci, Dept Bot, Tsukuba, Ibaraki - Japan
[13] Univ Minnesota, Dept Plant & Microbial Biol, St Paul, MN 55108 - USA
[14] New Guinea Binatang Res Ctr, Madang - Papua N Guinea
[15] Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Reg & Chinese Acad Sci, Guangxi Key Lab Plant Conservat & Restorat Ecol K, Guangxi Inst Bot, Guilin - Peoples R China
[16] Papua New Guinea Univ Technol, Lae - Papua N Guinea
[17] Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor - Indonesia
[18] Univ Fed Mato Grosso do Sul, Tres Lagoas Campus, Tres Lagoas - Brazil
[19] Royal Bot Garden Sydney, Sydney, NSW - Australia
[20] Univ Papua, Fak Kehutanan, Manokwari - Indonesia
[21] Baden Penelitian & Pengembangan Daerah Prov Papua, Manokwari - Indonesia
[22] Missouri Bot Garden, St Louis, MO - USA
[23] Papua New Guinea Forest Res Inst, Lae - Papua N Guinea
[24] Natl Bot Gardens Ireland, Glasnevin - Ireland
[25] Univ Zurich, Dept Systemat & Evolutionary Bot, Zurich - Switzerland
[26] Forest Res Inst Malaysia, Kepong - Malaysia
[27] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Life Sci, London - England
[28] Univ Bonn, Nees Inst Biodivers Plants, Bonn - Germany
[29] Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Inst Biol, Herbarium, Halle - Germany
[30] Natl Pk Board, Nat Plants Ctr, Singapore - Singapore
[31] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Biol Sci, Aberdeen - Scotland
[32] Natl Pk Board, Singapore Bot Gardens, Singapore - Singapore
[33] Univ Philippines Manila, Coll Arts & Sci, Dept Biol, Manila - Philippines
[34] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto Univ Museum, Kyoto - Japan
[35] Sao Paulo State Univ, Inst Biosci, Rio Claro - Brazil
[36] Univ Melbourne, Sch Biosci, Parkville, Vic - Australia
[37] Royal Bot Gardens Victoria, South Yarra, Vic - Australia
[38] Queens Univ Belfast, Marine Lab, Portaferry - North Ireland
[39] Fern Res Fdn, Kerikeri - New Zealand
[40] Univ N Carolina, Wilmington, NC - USA
[41] Museum New Zealand Papa Tongarewa, Wellington - New Zealand
[42] Western Michigan Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 - USA
[43] New Mexico State Univ, Dept Anim & Range Sci, Las Cruces, NM 88003 - USA
[44] Univ Fed Vicosa, Dept Biol Vegetal, Vicosa, MG - Brazil
[45] Colorado State Univ, Dept Biol, Ft Collins, CO 80523 - USA
[46] Trinity Coll Dublin, Sch Nat Sci, Dept Bot, Dublin - Ireland
[47] Univ Florida, Dept Biol, Gainesville, FL - USA
[48] CSIRO Land & Water, Floreat, WA - Australia
[49] Univ Western Australia, Sch Biol Sci, Crawley, WA - Australia
[50] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Beijing - Peoples R China
[51] Univ Minnesota, Bell Museum, St Paul, MN 55108 - USA
[52] Univ Glasgow, Inst Biodivers Anim Hlth & Comparat Med, Glasgow, Lanark - Scotland
[53] Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Chengdu - Peoples R China
[54] Leiden Univ, Inst Biol Leiden, Leiden - Netherlands
Total Affiliations: 54
Document type: Journal article
Source: Nature; v. 584, n. 7822, p. 579+, AUG 27 2020.
Web of Science Citations: 27
Abstract

New Guinea is the world's largest tropical island and has fascinated naturalists for centuries(1,2). Home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet(3)and to intact ecological gradients-from mangroves to tropical alpine grasslands-that are unmatched in the Asia-Pacific region(4,5), it is a globally recognized centre of biological and cultural diversity(6,7). So far, however, there has been no attempt to critically catalogue the entire vascular plant diversity of New Guinea. Here we present the first, to our knowledge, expert-verified checklist of the vascular plants of mainland New Guinea and surrounding islands. Our publicly available checklist includes 13,634 species (68% endemic), 1,742 genera and 264 families-suggesting that New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world. Expert knowledge is essential for building checklists in the digital era: reliance on online taxonomic resources alone would have inflated species counts by 22%. Species discovery shows no sign of levelling off, and we discuss steps to accelerate botanical research in the `Last Unknown'(8). A catalogue of the vascular flora of New Guinea indicates that this island is the most floristically diverse in the world, and that 68% of the species identified are endemic to New Guinea. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/13112-7 - Biogeography of seasonal dry forests on limestone outcrops in three Brazilian biomes
Grantee:Pablo Hendrigo Alves de Melo
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
FAPESP's process: 18/09379-6 - The influence of dissolution histories and current climatic conditions over species composition of vascular plants on karst in Brazil
Grantee:Pablo Hendrigo Alves de Melo
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate