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World Flora Online Plant List June 2025
<p>The consensus taxonomy of plants used as the backbone for the <a href="https://www.worldfloraonline.org/">World Flora Online</a> (WFO) portal, and issued as editions of the <a href="https://wfoplantlist.org/">WFO Plant List</a>.</p> <p>New versions of this checklist are released every six months in June and December: this is release 2025-06.</p> <p>The history of data development for the WFO taxonomic backbone is given on the WFO Plant List <a href="https://wfoplantlist.org/background">background page</a>. Taxonomic names are incorporated into WFO from nomenclators <a href="https://www.ipni.org/">International Plant Name Index</a> (IPNI) for vascular plants, and <a href="https://www.tropicos.org/home">Tropicos</a> for bryophytes. Taxonomic and nomenclatural updates are incorporated from the WFO's <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/tens">Taxonomic Expert Networks</a> (TENs) and the <a href="https://powo.science.kew.org/about-wcvp">World Checklist of Vascular Plants</a> (WCVP), facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</p> <p>This data repository includes the following files:</p> <ul> <li><strong>wfo_plantlist_2025-06.zip</strong> The Catalogue of Life Data Package of the WFO Plant List. This is the most expressive standards based form of the list.</li> <li><strong>plant_list_2025-06.json.gz</strong> JSON formatted version of the WFO Plant List. This has been designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List API (<a href="https://list.worldfloraonline.org">https://list.worldfloraonline.org</a>) which in turn drives the WFO Plant List in the portal. This is recommended if you want a local, read only version of the list rather than use the API.</li> <li><strong>plant_list_2025-06.sql.gz</strong> This is the complete production database (minus API keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 8.0 or later instance if you require the list in SQL format.</li> <li><strong>ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz</strong> A file mapping all the IPNI IDs we track to their associated WFO IDs.</li> <li><strong>families_dwc.tar.gz</strong> Individual Darwin Core Archive files for each of 733 recognized families. If you want a single family in DwC but can't load the whole list download and expand this file. Family and genus files are also available for download through the portal. These files exclude deprecated names.</li> <li><strong>_DwC_backbone_R.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing non deprecated names and taxa for use in the existing R package.</li> <li><strong>_uber.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing all names and taxa even those that are deprecated along with some extra columns</li> </ul>
Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species: Standardization to Records in World Flora Online or the World Checklist of Vascular Plants
<p>The <strong>Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS)</strong> is a collation of data across 196 individual country checklists of alien species, along with a designation of those species associated with evidence of impact at a country level. This compendium is available via <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/6348164">Zenodo</a> and was described by Pagad et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01514-z">2022</a>:</p><ul><li>Shyama Pagad, Stewart Bisset, & Melodie A. McGeoch. (2022). Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Dataset. (V1_0) [Data set]. Zenodo. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6348164">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6348164</a></li><li>Pagad, S., Bisset, S., Genovesi, P. <i>et al.</i> Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. <i>Sci Data</i> <strong>9</strong>, 391 (2022). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01514-z">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01514-z</a></li></ul><p> </p><p>Here I provide direct and fuzzy matches for species listed for the Plantae Kingdom in GRIIS with accepted plant names in <strong>World Flora Online</strong> (<a href="https://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData">version 2023.03</a>; Borsch et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373">2020</a>) or the <strong>World Checklist of Vascular Plants</strong> (<a href="https://doi.org/10.34885/nswv-8994">version 10</a>; Govaerts et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00997-6">2021</a>). Matching was done in <i>R</i> through the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora</a> package (Kindt <a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">2020</a>). The taxonomic standardization process was similar to the one completed <a href="https://www.worldagroforestry.org/output/agroforestry-species-switchboard-30">during the preparation of the third major release</a> of the <a href="https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/products/switchboard">Agroforestry Species Switchboard</a> and when preparing the <strong>GlobalUsefulNativeTrees database</strong> (GlobUNT; <a href="https://worldagroforestry.org/output/globalusefulnativetrees">https://worldagroforestry.org/output/globalusefulnativetrees</a>) .</p><p>Where a matching species was found in GlobUNT, the species name in the GlobUNT database has been shown. GlobUNT has been described in the following publication: Kindt et al. (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39552-1">2023</a>) <strong>GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database of 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in restoration</strong>. <i>Sci Rep</i> <strong>13</strong>, 12640. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39552-1">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39552-1</a>.</p><p>The developments of this dataset and GlobUNT were supported by the Darwin Initiative to project DAREX001 of <a href="https://www.darwininitiative.org.uk/project/DAREX001/"><i>Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration</i></a> and by Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia to the <a href="https://www.worldagroforestry.org/project/provision-adequate-tree-seed-portfolio-ethiopia"><i>Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio</i></a> project in Ethiopia. </p>
Trees of India Version 1: Standardization to Records in World Flora Online and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, with matches in GlobalTreeSearch and GlobalUsefulNativeTrees
<p>The <strong>Trees of India (ToI, Version-I)</strong> includes data on 3708 tree species distributed across 35 states/union territories of India. The database is based on systematic review of 313 literature sources published from 1872-2022.This compendium is available via <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/ToI_Ver_-I_Trees_of_India_Version-I/23226281">Figshare</a> and was described by Mugal et al. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-023-02659-y">2023</a>:</p> <ul> <li>Khuroo, Anzar Ahmad; Mugal, Muzamil Ahmad; Wani, Sajad Ahmad (2023). ToI, Ver.-I : Trees of India, Version-I. figshare. Dataset. <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23226281.v1">https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23226281.v1</a></li> <li>Mugal, M.A., Wani, S.A., Dar, F.A. <em>et al.</em> Bridging global knowledge gaps in biodiversity databases: a comprehensive data synthesis on tree diversity of India. <em>Biodivers Conserv</em> <strong>32</strong>, 3089–3107 (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02659-y">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02659-y</a></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Here I provide direct and fuzzy matches for taxa listed with accepted plant names in <strong>World Flora Online</strong> (<a href="https://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData">version 2023.03</a>; Borsch et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373">2020</a>) and the <strong>World Checklist of Vascular Plants</strong> (WCVP <a href="https://doi.org/10.34885/nswv-8994">version 10</a>; Govaerts et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00997-6">2021</a>). Matching was done in <em>R</em> through the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora</a> package (Kindt <a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">2020</a>). The taxonomic standardization process was similar to the one completed <a href="https://www.worldagroforestry.org/output/agroforestry-species-switchboard-30">during the preparation of the third major release</a> of the <a href="https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/products/switchboard">Agroforestry Species Switchboard</a> and when preparing the <strong>GlobalUsefulNativeTrees database</strong> (GlobUNT; <a href="https://worldagroforestry.org/output/globalusefulnativetrees">https://worldagroforestry.org/output/globalusefulnativetrees</a>).</p> <p>After matching species with the WCVP, information was compiled on the <strong>native distribution</strong> documented in the WCVP for level-3 units of the <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/wgsrpd">World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions</a> that correspond to India, including India (IND), Assam (ASS), West Himalaya (WHM), East Himalaya (EHM), Laccadive Is. (LDV), Andaman Is. (AND) and Nicobar Is. (NCB). Also included after matching with the WCVP is information on the geographic area, lifeform and main biome. Similar information is available when searching for species from <a href="https://powo.science.kew.org/">Plants of the World Online</a>.</p> <p>Where a matching species was found in <strong>GlobalTreeSearch</strong> (Beech et al. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10549811.2017.1310049">2017</a>; <a href="https://tools.bgci.org/global_tree_search.php">https://tools.bgci.org/global_tree_search.php</a>; accessed on 28th June 2023) filtered for India, the species name in GlobalTreeSearch is shown. Note that GlobalTreeSearch documents the <strong>native country distribution</strong> of tree species.</p> <p>Where a matching species was found in the <strong>GlobalUsefulNativeTrees</strong> database (GlobUNT, version 2023.11) filtered for India, the species name in the GlobUNT database is shown. GlobUNT has been described in the following publication: Kindt et al. (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39552-1">2023</a>) <strong>GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database of 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in restoration</strong>. <em>Sci Rep</em> <strong>13</strong>, 12640. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39552-1">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39552-1</a>.</p> <p>See the metadata for information on versions.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M.M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J.T., Palese, R., Paton, A., Parnell, J., Pendry, C., Qin, H.-N., Sosa, V., Sosef, M., von Raab-Straube, E., Ranwashe, F., Raz, L., Salimov, R., Smets, E., Thiers, B., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Ulate, W., Ung, V., Watson, M., Jackson, P.W. and Zamora, N. (2020), World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. TAXON, 69: 1311-1341. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373">https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373</a></li> <li>Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N. <em>et al.</em> The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>8</strong>, 215 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6</a></li> <li>E. Beech, M.Rivers, S. Oldfield & P. P. Smith (2017)GlobalTreeSearch: The first complete global database of tree species and country distributions, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 36:5, 454-489, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2017.1310049">10.1080/10549811.2017.1310049</a></li> <li>Kindt, R. 2020. WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. <em>Applications in Plant Sciences</em> 8(9): e11388. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388">https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388</a></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>The developments of this dataset and GlobUNT were supported by the Darwin Initiative to project DAREX001 of <a href="https://www.darwininitiative.org.uk/project/DAREX001/"><em>Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration</em></a>.</p>
TRY 6.0 - Species List from Taxonomic Harmonization – Matches with World Flora Online version 2023.12
<p>Standardized names for TRY 6.0 are available from the TRY File Archive (TFA; see here: <a href="https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Data.php#100">https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Data.php#100</a>); these were created for the following publication:</p> <p>Schellenberger Costa, D., Boehnisch, G., Freiberg, M., Govaerts, R., Grenié, M., Hassler, M., Kattge, J., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Rojas Andrés, B.M., Winter, M., Watson, M., Zizka, A. and Wirth, C. (2023), The big four of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytol, 240: 1687-1702. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18961">https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18961</a></p> <p>Here matched records are provided with the taxonomic backbone of World Flora Online (WFO) version 2023.01, obtained from <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10425161">https://zenodo.org/records/10425161</a>.</p> <p>Matches with WFO are given in the Zenodo archive in the fields for <em>SID</em> (=taxonID in WFO), <em>scientificName</em> (as in WFO) and <em>scientificNameAuthorship</em> (as in WFO). Fields of <em>TRY_SpeciesID</em>, <em>TRY_AccSpeciesNameScientific</em> and <em>RecommendedScientificName</em> were directly obtained from the TFA.</p> <p> </p> <p>Matching was done via following steps:</p> <p>1. Fungi matched in the TFA via the <a href="http://indexfungorum.org">http://indexfungorum.org</a> were excluded (4,099 records).</p> <p>2. The matching record in WFO was obtained by matching the TFA field of <em>TPL_ID</em> with the WFO field of <em>tplID</em>. Successful matches via this method are indicated in this Zenodo archive by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>TPL ID</em></strong>.</p> <p>3. Where matches in WFO included a non-empty <em>acceptedNameUsageID</em>, the currently accepted name of the taxon was obtained via this ID. Successful matches via this method are indicated in this Zenodo archive by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>TPL ID</em></strong> and fields of <em>synonymID, scientificName.synonym</em> and scientificNameAuthorship.synonym showing details for the match with the synonym.</p> <p>4. Taxa that were not matched in previous steps were matched for the TFA field of <em>MatchedName</em>. Matching was done via the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora package</a> version 1.14-5 (<a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">Kindt 2020</a>). Matches expected to be acceptable after visual inspection are indicated in this Zenodo archive by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>manual</em></strong><em>.</em> Taxa at specific and infraspecific levels from the TFA where matches had only been achieved at generic levels for the <em>MatchedName</em> were excluded in this step.</p> <p>5. Taxa that were not matched in previous steps were matched for the TFA field of <em>TRY_AccSpeciesName</em>. Matching was done via the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora package</a> version 1.14-5 (<a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">Kindt 2020</a>). Matches expected to be acceptable after visual inspection are indicated in this Zenodo archive by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>manual</em></strong><em>.</em></p> <p>6. Taxa that were not matched in previous steps were matched for the TFA field of <em>AlternativeName</em>. Matching was done via the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora package</a> version 1.14-5 (<a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">Kindt 2020</a>). Matches expected to be acceptable after visual inspection are indicated in this Zenodo archive by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>manual</em></strong><em>.</em></p> <p>7. Taxa that were not matched in previous steps were matched for the TFA field of <em>MatchedName</em> against <a href="https://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/Archive/">version 11 of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants</a>. Matching was also done via the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora package</a> version 1.14-5 (<a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">Kindt 2020</a>), with similar scripts <a href="https://rpubs.com/Roeland-KINDT/1134151">as shown in this Rpub</a>. Matches expected to be acceptable after visual inspection are indicated in this Zenodo archive by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>manual</em></strong><em> </em>and by the field of <em>SID</em> (and possibly <em>synonymID</em>) containing records where the WCVP ID is preceded by WCVP-.</p> <p>8. 836 records where neither the TFA nor the previous steps managed to establish a match were removed.</p> <p>9. Taxa that could not be matched in previous steps are flagged by the field of <em>MATCH</em> being set to <strong><em>NONE - no species MatchedName</em></strong><em> </em>(where TFA also did not achieve a match at the required specific or infraspecific level) or <strong><em>NONE</em></strong> (other records where no match was achieved).</p> <p> </p> <p>The Zenodo archive contains 406,208 records with matches via the TPL, 96,040 records with manual matches, 1,822 records where the TFA also not achieve matches at required (infra-)specific levels and 361 records where no match was achieved (among this latter category were 202 records flagged in TFA as ‘not found in WFO’ and 140 records flagged in TFA as ‘found only here’).</p> <p> </p> <p>Version 2024.10b was created with added fields from TFA of <em>TRY_SpeciesName</em> and <em>BackboneDatabase</em>. This was done especially to explain different matches for records with the same <em>RecommendedScientificName </em>but with different matches to WFO, as for example for <em>Acacia adunca</em> A.Cunn. & G.Don and <em>Acacia aestivalis</em> E.Pritz.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <ul> <li>Kattge J. 2023. TRY 6.0 - Species List from Taxonomic Harmonization. <a href="https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Data.php#100">https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Data.php#100</a></li> <li>Schellenberger Costa, D., Boehnisch, G., Freiberg, M., Govaerts, R., Grenié, M., Hassler, M., Kattge, J., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Rojas Andrés, B.M., Winter, M., Watson, M., Zizka, A. and Wirth, C. (2023), The big four of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytol, 240: 1687-1702. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18961">https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18961</a></li> <li>The World Flora Online Consortium, Alan Elliott, Roger Hyam, William Ulate, Mark Watson, Gregory Anderson, Giovani carlos Andrella, et al. “World Flora Online Plant List December 2023”. Zenodo, December 22, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10425161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10425161</a>.</li> <li>Kindt R (2020). “WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data.” <em>Applications in Plant Sciences</em>, <strong>8</strong>(9), e11388. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388">https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388</a></li> <li>Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M.M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J.T., Palese, R., Paton, A., Parnell, J., Pendry, C., Qin, H.-N., Sosa, V., Sosef, M., von Raab-Straube, E., Ranwashe, F., Raz, L., Salimov, R., Smets, E., Thiers, B., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Ulate, W., Ung, V., Watson, M., Jackson, P.W. and Zamora, N. (2020), World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. TAXON, 69: 1311-1341. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373">https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373</a></li> <li>Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N. <em>et al.</em> The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>8</strong>, 215 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6</a></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>The development of this archive supported by the <strong>Darwin Initiative</strong> to project DAREX001 of <em>Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration</em>, by <strong>Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia</strong> to the <em>Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio</em> project in Ethiopia, by the <strong>Green Climate Fund</strong> through the IUCN-led <em>Transforming the Eastern Province of Rwanda through Adaptation</em> project and through the <em>Readiness proposal on Climate Appropriate Portfolios of Tree Diversity for Burkina Faso</em>, by the <strong>Bezos Earth Fund</strong> to the <em>Bezos Quality Tree Seed for Africa in Kenya and Rwanda</em> project and by the <strong>German International Climate Initiative (IKI)</strong> to the regional tree seed programme on <em>The Right Tree for the Right Place for the Right Purpose in Africa</em>.</p> <p> </p>
The World Flora Online for taxlist
<p>This is a subset of the original data set downloaded at <a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData">http://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData</a>.</p> <p>The original list was filtered extracting duplicated combinations of <strong>taxon usage name</strong> and <strong>authorship</strong> as requested by the package <a href="https://docs.ropensci.org/taxlist/">taxlist</a>.</p> <p>This project is maintained in a GitLab repository called <a href="https://gitlab.com/super-miguel/wfo">wfo</a>.</p> <p>Modifications between versions are documented at <a href="https://gitlab.com/super-miguel/wfo/-/blob/main/NEWS.md">NEWS</a>.</p>
Tallo database with World Flora Online taxonomic matches, also including information on presence in the TreeGOER and GlobalUsefulNativeTrees databases
<p>The <strong>Tallo database</strong> (v 1.0.0) provides tree measurements for 5,163 tree species and 61,856 globally distributed sites. The database can be accessed via <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/6637599">https://zenodo.org/record/6637599</a> and has been fully described in Jucker <em>et al.</em> 2022. <strong>Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database</strong>. Global Change Biology, 28, 5254–5268. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16302">https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16302</a>. Data provided in this archive show the taxonomic matches with <a href="https://www.worldfloraonline.org/">World Flora Online</a> (Borsch et al. <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12373">2020</a>) for two versions of its taxonomic backbone data set. The first version (<a href="https://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData">v. 2021.12</a>) was used also to standardize species names for the latest version of the <a href="https://www.worldagroforestry.org/output/agroforestry-species-switchboard-30">Agroforestry Species Switchboard</a> and during the compilation of the <strong>TreeGOER</strong> (<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/8052331">Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges</a>; Kindt <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16914">2023</a>) and <strong>GlobalUsefulNativeTrees</strong> (<a href="https://worldagroforestry.org/output/globalusefulnativetrees">GlobUNT</a>; Kindt <em>et al.</em> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39552-1">2023</a>) databases. The second version (<a href="https://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData">v. 2023.03</a>) was the most recent version available online. Taxonomic matching was done via the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">WorldFlora</a> R package (Kindt <a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aps3.11388">2020</a>, see example scripts for a different taxonomic matching exercise <a href="https://rpubs.com/Roeland-KINDT/996500">here</a>).</p> <p>Taxonomic matching was achieved for all taxa listed in the Tallo database, except for <em>Lithocarpus orocola</em>.</p> <p>Presence of a taxon in the TreeGOER and GlobalUsefulNativeTrees databases has been flagged by showing the number of records used in TreeGOER to calculate ranges for environmental variable bio01 and by the number of native countries in GlobUNT, respectively.</p> <p>The development of this archive was supported by the Darwin Initiative to project DAREX001 of <em>Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration</em>, by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia to the <em>Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio</em> project in Ethiopia, and by the Green Climate Fund through the IUCN-led <em>Transforming the Eastern Province of Rwanda through Adaptation</em> project.</p>
African wood density database with matches to the taxonomic backbone data sets of World Flora Online (version 2023.12) and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (version 11)
<p>The <strong><span>African Wood Density Database </span></strong><span>provides air-dry wood density data for over 750 tree species grown in Africa.</span></p> <p>This archive provides taxonomic matches with recent versions of <strong>World Flora Online</strong> (WFO; <a href="../records/10425161">version 2023.12 downloaded from Zenodo</a>; Borch et al. <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12373">2020</a>) and the <strong>World Checklist of Vascular Plants</strong> (WCVP; <a href="https://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/Archive/">version 11 downloaded from the Kew data depository</a>; Govaerts et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6">2021</a>). Matching was done via the <strong>WorldFlora</strong> package (<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">version 1.14-3</a>; Kindt <a href="https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11388">2020</a>), using similar scripts as documented in this Rpub: <a href="https://rpubs.com/Roeland-KINDT/1134151">https://rpubs.com/Roeland-KINDT/1134151</a>.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><span>Carsan, S. Orwa, C. Harwood, C. Kindt, R. Stroebel, A. Neufeldt, H. and Jamnadass, R. 2012. African Wood Density Database. World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi. <a href="https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/treesnmarkets/wood/">https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/treesnmarkets/wood/#</a> </span></li> <li><span>Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M.M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J.T., Palese, R., Paton, A., Parnell, J., Pendry, C., Qin, H.-N., Sosa, V., Sosef, M., von Raab-Straube, E., Ranwashe, F., Raz, L., Salimov, R., Smets, E., Thiers, B., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Ulate, W., Ung, V., Watson, M., Jackson, P.W. and Zamora, N. (2020), World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. TAXON, 69: 1311-1341. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373">https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373</a></span></li> <li><span>Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N. <em>et al.</em> The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>8</strong>, 215 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6</a></span></li> <li><span>Kindt, R. 2020. WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. <em>Applications in Plant Sciences</em> 8(9): e11388. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388">https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388</a></span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Original funding for the database was provided <span>by the Carbon Benefits Project (CBP) supported by The Global Environment Facility (GEF). Development of the 2024 version </span>was supported by the <strong>Darwin Initiative</strong> to project DAREX001 of <em>Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration</em>, by <strong>Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia</strong> to the <em>Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio</em> project in Ethiopia, by the <strong>Green Climate Fund</strong> through the IUCN-led <em>Transforming the Eastern Province of Rwanda through Adaptation</em> project and through the <em>Readiness proposal on Climate Appropriate Portfolios of Tree Diversity for Burkina Faso</em>, by the <strong>Bezos Earth Fund</strong> to the <em>Bezos Quality Tree Seed for Africa in Kenya and Rwanda</em> project and by the <strong>German International Climate Initiative (IKI)</strong> to the regional tree seed programme on <em>The Right Tree for the Right Place for the Right Purpose in Africa</em>. When using <strong>African Wood Density database</strong> in your work, cite the 2012 version (Carsan et al. <a href="https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/treesnmarkets/wood/">2012</a>) as well as this repository using the DOI.</p>
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