Identifying gaps in the photographic record of the vascular plant flora of the Americas

Nigel C A Pitman; Tomomi Suwa; Carmen Ulloa Ulloa; James Miller; James Solomon; Juliana Philipp; Corine F Vriesendorp; Abigail Derby Lewis; Sinem Perk; Pierre Bonnet; Alexis Joly; Mathias W Tobler; Jason H Best; John P Janovec; Kevin C Nixon; Barbara M Thiers; Melissa Tulig; Edward E Gilbert; Rafaela Campostrini Forzza; Geraldo Zimbrao; Fabiana Luiza Ranzato Filardi; Robert Turner; Fernando O Zuloaga; Manuel J Belgrano; Christian A Zanotti; Jurriaan M de Vos; Eduardo L Hettwer Giehl; C E Timothy Paine; Rubens Texeira de Queiroz; Katya Romoleroux; Everton Hilo de Souza

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Identifying gaps in the photographic record of the vascular plant flora of the Americas

Nigel C A Pitman, Tomomi Suwa, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, James Miller, James Solomon, Juliana Philipp, Corine F Vriesendorp, Abigail Derby Lewis, Sinem Perk, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly, Mathias W Tobler, Jason H Best, John P Janovec, Kevin C Nixon, Barbara M Thiers, Melissa Tulig, Edward E Gilbert, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Geraldo ZimbraoFabiana Luiza Ranzato Filardi, Robert Turner, Fernando O Zuloaga, Manuel J Belgrano, Christian A Zanotti, Jurriaan M de Vos, Eduardo L Hettwer Giehl, C E Timothy Paine, Rubens Texeira de Queiroz, Katya Romoleroux, Everton Hilo de Souza

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Field photographs of plant species are crucial for research and conservation, but the lack of a centralized database makes them difficult to locate. We surveyed 25 online databases of field photographs and found that they harboured only about 53% of the approximately 125,000 vascular plant species of the Americas. These results reflect the urgent need for a centralized database that can both integrate and complete the photographic record of the world's flora.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1010-1014
Journal	Nature Plants
Volume	7
Issue number	8
Early online date	29 Jul 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00974-2
Publication status	Published - Aug 2021

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Pitman, N. C. A., Suwa, T., Ulloa Ulloa, C., Miller, J., Solomon, J., Philipp, J., Vriesendorp, C. F., Derby Lewis, A., Perk, S., Bonnet, P., Joly, A., Tobler, M. W., Best, J. H., Janovec, J. P., Nixon, K. C., Thiers, B. M., Tulig, M., Gilbert, E. E., Campostrini Forzza, R., ... de Souza, E. H. (2021). Identifying gaps in the photographic record of the vascular plant flora of the Americas. Nature Plants, 7(8), 1010-1014. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00974-2

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