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Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 1: Progress and Prospects

Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 1: Progress and Prospects. Eimear Nic Lughadha Head of Science Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Floras. Monographs. Nature 346 August 1990. Nature 346 August 1990 IOPI Delphi October 1990. World Checklist of Myrtaceae. plant families

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Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 1: Progress and Prospects

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  1. Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 1: Progress and Prospects Eimear Nic Lughadha Head of Science Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  2. Floras

  3. Monographs

  4. Nature 346 August 1990

  5. Nature 346 August 1990 IOPI Delphi October 1990

  6. World Checklist of Myrtaceae

  7. plant families • 102,000 accepted species • - Bibliographic details • - Synonyms • - Distribution data

  8. c. 1,000,000 names at species level

  9. Estimated global totals of known vascular plant species • Year Author No. of species • (estimated) • 1974 Stebbins 231,413 • 1992 May 270,000 • 2000 Prance et al. 320,000 • 2001 Govaerts 422,127 • Bramwell 421,968 • Scotland & Wortley 223,300

  10. World Checklist and Bibliography of Fagales 1998

  11. Global Strategy for Plant Conservation • Understanding and documenting plant diversity • Conserving plant diversity • Using plant diversity sustainably • Promoting education & awareness about plant diversity • Capacity building for plant diversity

  12. Global Strategy for Plant Conservation • Kew played key role in negotiation and supporting documentation • Target 1: A widely accessible working list of all known plant species • Facilitating Organisation for Stakeholder Consultation

  13. Committingto Checklists

  14. GSPC TARGET 1 PROGRESS • Kew with collaborators have contributed 80% of total to date • 114 collaborators in 20 different countries 13% 42 % 45%

  15. Specialist compilers – not family specialists • Optimising use of specialists’ time – for review • Perfect should not be the enemy of the good

  16. Reaching the Target

  17. Reaching the Target • New Checklists • Documenting and refining methodology • Improving compilation tools • Developing prototype • Identifying user needs in detail • Articulating potential impact of checklists • Standardising source datasets: IPNI-Tropicos

  18. Compositae and Melastomataceae • Involving more contributors • Tackling the maintenance challenge • Diversifying uptake and use • Completing the virtuous circle

  19. Why Checklists Matter: their use and impact

  20. How many names are there? • 0.35 million flowering plants • 1.5 million scientific plant names published • 3 million “names” incl. common misspellings

  21. Impact 1: Very difficult to find information Information about one plant may be published under many names

  22. Example: “Costus” or “Kut Root”Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipschitz Root widely used in Chinese traditional medicine; • family = “Asteraceae” • many synonyms • few synonyms cited in Chinese pharmacopoeia • most frequent name in herbal literature is Aucklandia lappaDecne.

  23. Example: Search Google for “Saussurea costus”

  24. Searching with Accepted name 51 PubMed Records 215 GenBank Records

  25. Searching witha synonym 03 PubMed Records 14 GenBank Records

  26. Lessons • Using a scientific name does not guarantee the reliability of the information • Rarely find all published information with 1 name • within a single information source (e.g. NCBI) • especially when searching multiple sources • You may have to work hard to find all synonyms

  27. Authoritative checklist answer questions such as: Q1: What is the correct name? Q2: How many plants in this genus? Q3: Are these names synonymous? Q4: List all synonyms for this plant?

  28. Who uses checklists? • GenBank / GBIF / Barcode of Life • WHO / EMEA • FAO / USDA / • Development Agencies - ICRAF / CIFOR • IUCN Red Lists / WCMC / • CITES • Publishers: Biological abstracts Phytochemical dictionaries

  29. How to measure impact? • Take one example – GenBank • Relevance to BarCode of Life

  30. Searching NCBI: the possible outcomes today Only 7 outcomes from 40 return ALL data and avoid errors

  31. Searching NCBI:with an authoritative names index Outcome more complete or more accurate Conclusion: 33 of the possible 40 outcomes would be more complete or more reliable

  32. Species representation in GenBank15 spp = 84% records

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