Publication details
Red List of vascular plants of the Czech Republic: 3rd edition
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Preslia : časopis české botanické společnosti |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Botany |
| Keywords | Czech Republic Red List threatened plants trends over time vascular plants |
| Description | The knowledge of the flora of the Czech Republic has substantially improved since the second version of the national Red List was published, mainly due to large-scale field recording during the last decade and the resulting large national databases. In this paper, an updated Red List is presented and compared with the previous editions of 1979 and 2000. The complete updated Red List consists of 1720 taxa (listed in Electronic Appendix I), accounting for more then a half (59.2%) of the native flora of the Czech Republic. Of the Red-Listed taxa, 156 (9.1% of the total number on the list) are in the A categories, which include taxa that have vanished from the flora or are not known to occur at present, 471 (27.4%) are classified as critically threatened, 357 (20.8%) as threatened and 356 (20.7%) as endangered. From 1979 to 2000 to 2012, there has been an increase in the total number of taxa included in the Red List (from 1190 to 1627 to 1720) and in most categories. |