Biodiversa+May 1, 2025
🏝️ #BioMonI (#BiodivMon) offers a comprehensive dataset of over 6500 plant species across 844 Australian islands. Open-access resource, updated continuously!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70019
Biodiversa+Dec 4, 2024
🏝️ Islands are evolutionary hotspots with unique species! #BioMonI (#BiodivMon) reveals 31% of vascular plants are island natives, with 21% being endemic. Urgent conservation is needed as 51% of these endemics are threatened.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08036-1
Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism - Nature

A standardized checklist of all known vascular plants shows the distribution of island native and endemic species, identifies their conservation status and highlights the need for actions to conserve them.

Nature