Ranks for taxa (if desired).
They present notes not only for taxa but also for general biological terms, even words like "Flora".
New names for taxa already known to occur in the state, reports of taxa previously known to science but not known from California, the publication of names for taxa new to science, and many other kinds of changes or potential changes appear in the literature of botany much more frequently than floras are published, or even more frequently than updated floristic treatments appear online.
For taxa that had only biogeographic realm data, we coded them as follows: 'widespread': Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oceanian/Australia; 'tropical': Panamenian, Oriental and extra-tropical': Europe/Palaearctic/North Asia, Nearctic, Saharo-Arabian, Sino-Japanese.
We suggest that extreme CO2-induced global warming selected for taxa with high LMA associated with a stress-tolerant strategy and that adaptive plasticity in leaf functional traits such as LMA contributed to post-warming ecological success.
The confidence of abundance estimates was substantially greater in the composite than in the standard, although not for taxa of low abundance (< ≈ 103 ind.m−2).m−2
Seed protein electrophoresis is a valid tool for taxa discrimination.
The latter was especially, although not exclusively, the case for taxa included in a polytomy.
Improvements can be made in developing collections for taxa from biodiversity hotspots and remote areas where collecting requires considerable resources.
The author abbreviations of scientific names are used according to the North American Lichen Checklist or the Index of Fungi (for taxa from other regions).
Web pages for taxa at a range of hierarchical levels have been added at a steady rate since 1996, contributed by more than 320 biologists from 21 countries.
