Identifying gaps in the photographic record of the vascular plant flora of the Americas
Nigel C. A. Pitman
(1)
,
Tomomi Suwa
(1)
,
Carmen Ulloa Ulloa
(2)
,
James Miller
(2)
,
James Solomon
(2)
,
Juliana Philipp
(1)
,
Corine Vriesendorp
(1)
,
Abigail Derby Lewis
(1)
,
Sinem Perk
(1)
,
Pierre Bonnet
(3, 4)
,
Alexis Joly
(5, 6)
,
Mathias Tobler
(7)
,
Jason H. Best
(8)
,
John P. Janovec
(9)
,
Kevin C. Nixon
(10)
,
Barbara M. Thiers
(11)
,
Melissa Tulig
(11)
,
Edward E. Gilbert
(12)
,
Rafaela Campostrini Forzza
(13)
,
Geraldo Zimbrão
(14)
,
Fabiana Luiza Ranzato Filardi
(13)
,
Robert Turner
(15)
,
Fernando Zuloaga
(16)
,
Manuel Belgrano
(16)
,
Christian Zanotti
(17)
,
Jurriaan M. de Vos
(18)
,
Eduardo Hettwer Giehl
(19)
,
Timothy C. E. Paine
(20)
,
Rubens Texeira de Queiroz
(21)
,
Katya Romoleroux
(22)
,
Everton Hilo de Souza
(23)
1
Field Museum of Natural History [Chicago, USA]
2 Missouri Botanical Garden
3 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
4 Cirad-BIOS - Département Systèmes Biologiques
5 LIRMM - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
6 ZENITH - Scientific Data Management
7 San Diego Zoo Global Institute for Conservation Research
8 Botanical Research Institute of Texas
9 UNALM - Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
10 Cornell University [New York]
11 NYBG - New York Botanical Garden
12 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
13 JBRJ - Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro
14 UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
15 Royal Botanic Gardens [Kew]
16 IBODA - Instituto de Botánica Darwinion [Buenos Aires]
17 CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires]
18 Unibas - Université de Bâle = University of Basel = Basel Universität
19 UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina = Federal University of Santa Catarina [Florianópolis]
20 UNE - University of New England
21 UFPB - Universidade Federal da Paraiba / Federal University of Paraiba
22 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
23 UFRB - Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
2 Missouri Botanical Garden
3 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
4 Cirad-BIOS - Département Systèmes Biologiques
5 LIRMM - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
6 ZENITH - Scientific Data Management
7 San Diego Zoo Global Institute for Conservation Research
8 Botanical Research Institute of Texas
9 UNALM - Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
10 Cornell University [New York]
11 NYBG - New York Botanical Garden
12 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
13 JBRJ - Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro
14 UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
15 Royal Botanic Gardens [Kew]
16 IBODA - Instituto de Botánica Darwinion [Buenos Aires]
17 CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires]
18 Unibas - Université de Bâle = University of Basel = Basel Universität
19 UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina = Federal University of Santa Catarina [Florianópolis]
20 UNE - University of New England
21 UFPB - Universidade Federal da Paraiba / Federal University of Paraiba
22 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
23 UFRB - Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
Pierre Bonnet
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Alexis Joly
- Function : Author
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Geraldo Zimbrão
- Function : Author
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Abstract
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.