Harnessing the potential of integrated systematics for conservation of taxonomically complex, megadiverse plant groups.

ABSTRACT: The value of natural history collections for conservation science research is increasingly recognized, despite their well-documented limitations in terms of taxonomic, geographic, and temporal coverage. Specimen-based analyses are particularly important for tropical plant groups for which field observations are scarce and potentially unreliable due to high levels of diversity-amplifying identification challenges. Specimen databases curated by specialists are rich sources of authoritatively identified, georeferenced occurrence data, and such data are urgently needed for large genera. We compared entries in a monographic database for the large Neotropical genus Myrcia in 2007 and 2017. We classified and quantified differences in specimen records over this decade and determined the potential

SUBMITTER: Nic Lughadha EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850456 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature