Biology:World Flora Online
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Type of site | Encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Created by | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |
| Website | about |
| Launched | October 2012 |
| Current status | Active |
World Flora Online is an Internet-based compendium of the world's plant species.
Description
The World Flora Online (WFO) is an open-access database, launched in October 2012 as a follow-up project to The Plant List, with the aim of publishing an online flora of all known plants by 2020.[1] It is a project of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, with goal of halting the loss of plant species worldwide by 2020. It is developed by a collaborative group of institutions around the world in response to the 2011–2020 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)'s updated Target 1: to produce "an online flora of all known plants".
An accessible flora of all known plant species was considered a fundamental requirement for plant conservation. It provides a baseline for the achievement and monitoring of other targets of the strategy. The previous target of GSPC was achieved in 2010 with The Plant List.[2][3] WFO was conceived in 2012 by an initial group of four institutions; the Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[4] In all, 36 institutions are involved in the production.[3]
World Flora Online developed WFO's Plant List (wfoplantlist.org) to replace the traditional Plant List v.1.1 (plantlist.org).[5] In 2024, Pl@ntNet joined the WFO consortium.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ WFO 2019.
- ↑ TPL 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Miller & Ulate 2017.
- ↑ MBG 2019.
- ↑ Team, W. F. O. (2021). "World Flora Online gets a New Look, a major data update, and launches the WFO plant list" (in en). Taxon 70 (6): 1418–1419. doi:10.1002/tax.12557. ISSN 1996-8175. Bibcode: 2021Taxon..70.1418.. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tax.12557.
- ↑ CIRAD (2024-11-04). "Le Cirad rejoint le consortium international World Flora Online" (in fr). https://www.cirad.fr/les-actualites-du-cirad/actualites/2024/le-cirad-rejoint-la-world-flora-online.
Bibliography
- Miller, Chuck; Ulate, William (23 August 2017). "World Flora Online Project: An online flora of all known plants". Proceedings of TDWG 1. doi:10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20529.
- "World Flora Online: An international initiative of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation". The World Flora Online Consortium. http://about.worldfloraonline.org/.
- "World Flora Online". Missouri Botanical Garden. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/world-flora-online.aspx.
- "The Plant List". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Missouri Botanical Garden. 2013. http://www.theplantlist.org/., see also The Plant List
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