Colombia's bioregions as a source of useful plants.

ABSTRACT: The aim of our study was to assess the importance of different Colombian bioregions in terms of the supply of useful plant species and the quality of the available distribution data. We assembled a dataset of georeferenced collection localities of all vascular plants of Colombia available from global and local online databases. We then assembled a list of species, subspecies and varieties of Colombia's useful plants and retrieved all point locality information associated with these taxa. We overlaid both datasets with a map of Colombia's bioregions to retrieve all species and useful species distribution records in each bioregion. To assess the reliability of our estimates of species numbers, we identified information gaps, in geographic and environmental space, by estimating their complete

SUBMITTER: Bystriakova N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8396733 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature