Checklist of the vascular flora of the Sunda-Sahul Convergence Zone
Joyce, Elizabeth M., Thiele, Kevin R., Slik, Ferry J. W., and Crayn, Darren M. (2020) Checklist of the vascular flora of the Sunda-Sahul Convergence Zone. Biodiversity Data Journal, 8. e51094.
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Abstract
Background
The Sunda-Sahul Convergence Zone, defined here as the area comprising Australia, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia (Indonesia to Myanmar), straddles the Sunda and Sahul continental shelves and is one of the most biogeographically famous and important regions in the world. Floristically, it is thought to harbour a large amount of the world's diversity. Despite the importance of the area, a checklist of the flora has never before been published. Here we present the first working checklist of vascular plants for the Sunda-Sahul Convergence Zone. The list was compiled from 24 flora volumes, online databases and unpublished plot data. Taxonomic nomenclature was updated, and each species was coded into nested biogeographic regions. The list includes 60,415 species in 5,135 genera and 363 families of vascular plants.
New information
This is the first species-level checklist of the region and presents an updated census of the region's floristic biodiversity. The checklist confirms that species richness of the SSCZ is comparable to that of the Neotropics, and highlights areas in need of further documentation and taxonomic work. This checklist provides a novel dataset for studying floristic ecology and evolution in this biogeographically important region of very high global biodiversity.
| Item ID: | 63423 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1314-2828 |
| Keywords: | Southeast Asia, Australia, Wallacea, biogeography, exchange, species list, diversity |
| Copyright Information: | © Joyce E et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Projects and Grants: | Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (RTP) |
| Research Data: | http://dx.doi.org/10.25903/5ea0dd85f8ea9 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2020 07:33 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3104 Evolutionary biology > 310411 Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960805 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales @ 100% |
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