A comprehensive evaluation of flowering plant diversity and conservation priority for national park planning in China.

ABSTRACT: Establishment of a national park protection system in China, including the latest target proposed to protect at least 30% of the land area, calls for a comprehensive exploration of conservation priorities incorporating multiple diversity facets. We herein evaluate the spatial distribution of Chinese flowering plants from the perspectives of richness, uniqueness, vulnerability, and evolutionary history, by integrating three mega-phylogenies and comprehensive distribution data. We detect significantly high consistency among hotspots of different diversity measures for Chinese flowering plants, suggesting that multiple facets of evolutionary diversity are concentrically distributed in China. Affording legal protection to these areas is expected to maximize positive conservation outcomes. We p

SUBMITTER: Lu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11197566 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature