Biodiversité

We assessed the relative species richness of vascular plant families within forests, grasslands, scrub and wetlands across Europe based on the European Vegetation Archive data.

To understand how functional traits and evolutionary history shape the geographic distribution of plant life on Earth, we need to integrate high‐quality and global‐scale distribution data with functional and phylogenetic information. Large‐scale distribution data for plants are, however, often restricted to either certain taxonomic groups or geographic regions.