The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct pteridophytes.

ABSTRACT:

Premise

Pteridophytes-vascular land plants that disperse by spores-are a powerful system for studying plant evolution, particularly with respect to the impact of abiotic factors on evolutionary trajectories through deep time. However, our ability to use pteridophytes to investigate such questions-or to capitalize on the ecological and conservation-related applications of the group-has been impaired by the relative isolation of the neo- and paleobotanical research communities and by the absence of large-scale biodiversity data sources.

Methods

Here we present the Pteridophyte Collections Consortium (PCC), an interdisciplinary community uniting neo- and paleobotanists, and the associated PteridoPortal, a publicly accessible online portal that serves over three million pteridop

SUBMITTER: Rothfels CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12038732 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature