Biodiversity Monitoring by Plant Proxy is Cheap and Easy: Here’s How and Why

Rasmus Ejrnæs; Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg; Hans Henrik Bruun

Biodiversity Monitoring by Plant Proxy is Cheap and Easy: Here’s How and Why

Rasmus Ejrnæs, Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg, Hans Henrik Bruun

Ecology and Evolution

Abstract

Local communities and regional biotas are built of hundreds, if not thousands, of species. Most of these species are small-bodied and discreet lifeforms. So it’s no wonder that naturalists have almost always focused their attention on conspicuous species of their particular liking. Why plants then? Well, plants are practical and efficient. They “stand still and wait to be counted”, as the eminent population biologist John Harper put it. No matter the weather, from spring to autumn. There are enough plant species to show contrasts between sites, and yet they can usually be identified to species level in the field.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	8 okt. 2018
Status	Udgivet - 8 okt. 2018

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https://methodsblog.com/2018/10/08/biodiversity-vascular-plants/

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