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

PITMAN, NIGEL C. A.; SUWA, TOMOMI; ULLOA ULLOA, CARMEN; MILLER, JAMES; SOLOMON, JAMES; PHILIPP, JULIANA; VRIESENDORP, CORINE F.; DERBY LEWIS, ABIGAIL; PERK, SINEM; BONNET, PIERRE; JOLY, ALEXIS; TOBLER, MATHIAS W.; BEST, JASON H.; JANOVEC, JOHN P.; NIXON, KEVIN C.; THIERS, BARBARA M.; TULIG, MELISSA; GILBERT, EDWARD E.; CAMPOSTRINI FORZZA, RAFAELA; ZIMBRÃO, GERALDO; RANZATO FILARDI, FABIANA LUIZA; TURNER, ROBERT; ZULOAGA, FERNANDO O.; BELGRANO, MANUEL J.; ZANOTTI, CHRISTIAN A.; DE VOS, JURRIAAN M.; HETTWER GIEHL, EDUARDO L.; PAINE, C. E. TIMOTHY; TEXEIRA DE QUEIROZ, RUBENS; ROMOLEROUX, KATYA; HILO DE SOUZA, EVERTON

Nature Plants

Nature Research

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2021

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.