Research ArticleAPPLIED ECOLOGY
A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction
- View ORCID ProfileT. Stévart1,2,3,*,
- View ORCID ProfileG. Dauby4,5,6,*,
- P. P. Lowry II1,
- View ORCID ProfileA. Blach-Overgaard7,8,
- View ORCID ProfileV. Droissart4,
- View ORCID ProfileD. J. Harris9,
- B. A. Mackinder9,10,
- G. E. Schatz1,
- View ORCID ProfileB. Sonké11,
- View ORCID ProfileM. S. M. Sosef3,
- View ORCID ProfileJ.-C. Svenning7,8,
- View ORCID ProfileJ. J. Wieringa12 and
- View ORCID ProfileT. L. P. Couvreur13,*,†
- 1Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa & Madagascar Department, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA.
- 2Herbarium et Bibliothèque de Botanique Africaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
- 3Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium.
- 4AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
- 5Laboratoire d’Évolution biologique et Écologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
- 6FRB–CESAB 5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France.
- 7Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
- 8Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
- 9Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK.
- 10Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, UK.
- 11Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Higher Teachers' Training College B.P. 047, University of Yaounde I.
- 12Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands.
- 13DIADE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: thomas.couvreur{at}ird.fr
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Science Advances 20 Nov 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 11, eaax9444
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax9444
Vol. 5, no. 11, eaax9444
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax9444
T. Stévart
1Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa & Madagascar Department, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA.
2Herbarium et Bibliothèque de Botanique Africaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
3Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium.
G. Dauby
4AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
5Laboratoire d’Évolution biologique et Écologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
6FRB–CESAB 5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France.
P. P. Lowry II
1Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa & Madagascar Department, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA.
A. Blach-Overgaard
7Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
8Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
V. Droissart
4AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
D. J. Harris
9Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK.
B. A. Mackinder
9Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK.
10Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, UK.
G. E. Schatz
1Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa & Madagascar Department, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA.
B. Sonké
11Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Higher Teachers' Training College B.P. 047, University of Yaounde I.
M. S. M. Sosef
3Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium.
J.-C. Svenning
7Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
8Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
J. J. Wieringa
12Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands.
T. L. P. Couvreur
13DIADE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
