The global distribution of plants used by humans-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The global distribution of plants used by humans

Published:2024-01-19 Issue:6680 Volume:383 Page:293-297
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Pironon S.¹²^ORCID,Ondo I.¹²^ORCID,Diazgranados M.¹³^ORCID,Allkin R.¹^ORCID,Baquero A. C.²,Cámara-Leret R.⁴^ORCID,Canteiro C.¹^ORCID,Dennehy-Carr Z.¹⁵^ORCID,Govaerts R.¹^ORCID,Hargreaves S.¹^ORCID,Hudson A. J.⁶⁷^ORCID,Lemmens R.⁸^ORCID,Milliken W.⁶^ORCID,Nesbitt M.¹⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Patmore K.¹^ORCID,Schmelzer G.⁸^ORCID,Turner R. M.¹,van Andel T. R.⁸¹¹^ORCID,Ulian T.⁶¹²^ORCID,Antonelli A.¹¹³¹⁴^ORCID,Willis K. J.¹¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK.

2. UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK.

3. International Plant Science Center, New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY, USA.

4. Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

5. Herbarium, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, UK.

6. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, UK.

7. Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK.

8. Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.

9. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.

10. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK.

11. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

12. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

13. Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

14. Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Abstract

Plants sustain human life. Understanding geographic patterns of the diversity of species used by people is thus essential for the sustainable management of plant resources. Here, we investigate the global distribution of 35,687 utilized plant species spanning 10 use categories (e.g., food, medicine, material). Our findings indicate general concordance between utilized and total plant diversity, supporting the potential for simultaneously conserving species diversity and its contributions to people. Although Indigenous lands across Mesoamerica, the Horn of Africa, and Southern Asia harbor a disproportionate diversity of utilized plants, the incidence of protected areas is negatively correlated with utilized species richness. Finding mechanisms to preserve areas containing concentrations of utilized plants and traditional knowledge must become a priority for the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adg8028

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