Integrating the Rabinowitz rarity framework with a National Plant Inventory in South Korea.

ABSTRACT: Increasingly large presence-only survey datasets are becoming available for use in conservation assessments. Potentially, these records could be used to determine spatial patterns of plant species rarity and endemism. We test the integration of a large South Korean species record database with Rabinowitz rarity classes. Rabinowitz proposed seven classes of species rarity using three variables: geographic range, habitat specificity, and local population size. We estimated the range size and local abundance of 2,215 plant species from species occurrence records and habitat specificity as the number of landcover types each species' records were found in. We classified each species into a rarity class or as common, compared species composition by class to national lists, and mapped the spatial

SUBMITTER: Choe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374650 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature