What is it about?
We show that 36.5% of all land plant species are represented by 5 or fewer observations in a global database based on plot and herbarium records, suggesting that they are very rare.
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Why is it important?
Rarity is both a practical problem for conservation, since rare species are far more likely to go extinct than common species, and a theoretical problem, since it is not obvious why most of them are not extinct already. What generates and maintains these high numbers?
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This was a HUGE amount of work!
Dr. Richard T Corlett
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
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This page is a summary of: The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants, Science Advances, November 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414.
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