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Between 45% and 48% of the world’s plant species are woody

fraction-on-phylogeny fraction-by-genus

Trying to scale up from data to estimates of the world requires a way to deal with sampling bias–we know a lot more about some parts of the world and some clades than others. More info from FitzJohn et al. in Journal of Ecology

Between 45% and 48% of the world’s plant species are woody
wcornwell June 10, 2015 Uncategorized
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