Floristic Studies in the Light of Biodiversity Knowledge and Conservation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 34755
Special Issue Editor
Interests: conservation; plants; red listing; threatened species; vascular flora; vegetation
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Dear Colleagues,
Floristic studies are often considered “simply” traditional research. However, the knowledge of the flora of a territory is crucial to slow down the effects of human pressure on biodiversity and essential for most of the research activities in modern botany, such as molecular research on the taxonomy of critical genera, which needs thorough floristic knowledge for the correct identification of the analyzed taxa. Management actions, planning strategies, and biodiversity conservation are only efficient and effective with an in-depth knowledge of how many and what taxa compose the floristic richness of a territory.
Therefore, I am glad to propose this Special Issue (SI), dealing with all aspects of floristic research, with a special focus on biodiversity conservation, poorly known floras, flora of protected areas, and biodiversity hot spots. Floristic research was not only important in the past but has a relevant role in botanical studies still today, even in countries with a long tradition on floristic studies and in which the flora is considered to be already well known.
Prof. Dr. Robert Philipp Wagensommer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- chorology
- conservation
- distribution
- ecology
- flora
- herbarium
- plant diversity
- systematics
- taxonomy
- threatened species
- vascular plants
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