State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023 citations

The State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023 report draws on scientific papers from an open access special collection of the journals New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet; a review of global fungal diversity in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources; and other associated preprints.

The full list of citations for the report and underlying peer-reviewed papers and preprints are available below, arranged by theme.

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Antonelli, A., et al. (2023). State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34885/wnwn-6s63

Names, numbers and new species

Antonelli, A., et al. (2023). Why plant diversity and distribution matter. Editorial, ‘Global Plant Diversity and Distribution’. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19282

Brown, M.J.M., et al. (2023). rWCVP: a companion R package for the World Checklist of Vascular Plants. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18919

Govaerts, R., et al. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8: 215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6

Kuhnhäuser, B.G., et al. (2023). RattanID – a molecular identification toolkit for rattan palms. Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7895955

Lujan, M., et al. (2023). Trials and tribulations of Neotropical plant taxonomy: Pace of tree species description. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.05.556231

Niskanen, T., et al. (2023). Pushing the frontiers of biodiversity research: Unveiling the global
diversity, distribution and conservation of fungi. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. DOI: https://doi.org//10.1146/annurev-environ-112621-090937

Schellenberger Costa, D., et al. (2023). The big four of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18961

What grows where and why?

Boyko, J.D., et al. (2023). The evolutionary responses of life-history strategies to climatic variability in flowering plants. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18971

Chang, Y., et al. (2023). Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to the Hengduan Mountains. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19206

Coiro, M., et al. (2023). Reconciling fossils with phylogenies reveals the origin and macroevolutionary processes explaining the global cycad biodiversity. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19010

Elliott, T.L. et al. (2023). Global analysis of Poales diversification – parallel evolution in space and time into open and closed habitats. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.14.557735

Niskanen, T. et al. (2023). Pushing the frontiers of biodiversity research: Unveiling the global diversity, distribution and conservation of fungi. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. DOI: https://doi.org//10.1146/annurev-environ-112621-090937

Pérez-Escobar, O., et al. (2023). The origin and speciation of orchids. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.10.556973

Sperotto, P., et al. (2023). Climbing mechanisms and the diversification of neotropical climbing plants across time and space. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19093

Taylor, A., et al. (2023). The contribution of plant life and growth forms to global gradients of vascular plant diversity. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19011

Villaverde, T., et al. (2023). Phylogenomics sheds new light on the drivers behind a long-lasting systematic riddle: the figwort family Scrophulariaceae. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18845

Wölke, F.J.R., et al. (2023). Africa as an evolutionary arena for large fruits. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19061

Hotspots and darkspots

Maitner, B., et al. (2023). A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18999

Ondo, I., et al. (2023). Plant diversity darkspots for global collection priorities. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.12.557387

Ramírez-Barahona., et al. (2023). Assessing digital accessible botanical knowledge and priorities for exploration and discovery of plant diversity across Mesoamerica. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19190

Tietje, M., et al. (2023). Global hotspots of plant phylogenetic diversity. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19151

The outlook for biodiversity

Bachman, S., et al. (2023). Extinction risk predictions for the world’s flowering plants to support their conservation. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.29.555324

Brown, M.J.M., et al. (2023a). Three in four undescribed plant species are threatened with extinction. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19214

Brown, M.J.M., et al. (2023b). Re-evaluating the importance of threatened species in maintaining global phytoregions. New Phytologist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19295

Bureš, P., et al. (2023). The global distribution of angiosperm genome size is shaped by climate. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.05.519116

Gallagher, R.V., et al. (2023). Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country. Plants, People, Planet, 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10369

Soto Gomez, M., et al. (2023). Genome size is positively correlated with extinction risk in herbaceous angiosperms. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.10.557053

Conclusion: Tackling the Nature Emergency in time

Nicolson, N., et al. (2023). Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability. Plants, People, Planet. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10438