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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/55217| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | The commonness of rarity: global and future distribution of rarity across land plants |
| Authors: | Brian Enquist Richard Corlett Thomas L. P. Couvreur Gilles Dauby John Donoghue II Wendy Foden Jonathan Lovett Pablo Marquet Cory Merow Guy Midgley Naia Morueta-Holme Xiao Feng Danilo Rafael Mesquita Neves Ary Teixeira de Oliveira Filho Nathan Jared Boardman Kraft Daniel Park Robert Peet Michiel Pillet Josep Serra Diaz Brody Sandel Mark Schildhauer Irena Simova Bradley Boyle Cyrille Violle Jan J. Wieringa Susan Wiser Lee Hannah Jens Christian Svenning Brian McGill Brian Maitner Erica Newman Peter Møller Jorgensen Patrick Roehrdanz Barbara Thiers Joseph Burger |
| Abstract: | A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare. Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare species. Here, we present the largest compilation of global plant diversity to quantify the fraction of Earth’s plant biodiversity that are rare. A large fraction, ~36.5% of Earth’s ~435,000 plant species, are exceedingly rare. Sampling biases and prominent models, such as neutral theory and the k-niche model, cannot account for the observed prevalence of rarity. Our results indicate that (i) climatically more stable regions have harbored rare species and hence a large fraction of Earth’s plant species via reduced extinction risk but that (ii) climate change and human land use are now disproportionately impacting rare species. Estimates of global species abundance distributions have important implications for risk assessments and conservation planning in this era of rapid global change. |
| Subject: | Biodiversidade - Conservação |
| language: | por |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | ICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE BOTÂNICA |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/55217 |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414 |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Science Advances |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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