英国皇家植物园S. Pironon团队调查了人类使用的植物的全球分布。相关论文于2024年1月19日发表于国际顶尖学术期刊《科学》杂志上。

研究人员调查了涵盖10个用途类别(如食品，医药，材料)、35,687种已被利用的植物物种的全球分布情况。研究结果表明，已利用的植物多样性和总植物多样性之间总体是一致的，这促进了同时保护物种多样性的潜力及其对人类的贡献。

尽管中美洲、非洲之角和南亚避难所的土著土地上，被利用植物多样性不成比例，但保护区的出现率与所利用的物种丰富度呈负相关。寻找包含被利用植物和传统知识集中的保护区的机制，将成为实施《全球生物多样性框架》的优先事项。

据了解，植物维持人类的生命。因此，了解人类使用物种多样性的地理格局对于植物资源的可持续管理具有重要意义。

附：英文原文

Title: The global distribution of plants used by humans

Author: S. Pironon, I. Ondo, M. Diazgranados, R. Allkin, A. C. Baquero, R. Cámara-Leret, C. Canteiro, Z. Dennehy-Carr, R. Govaerts, S. Hargreaves, A. J. Hudson, R. Lemmens, W. Milliken, M. Nesbitt, K. Patmore, G. Schmelzer, R. M. Turner, T. R. van Andel, T. Ulian, A. Antonelli, K. J. Willis

Issue&Volume: 2024-01-19

Abstract: Plants sustain human life. Understanding geographic patterns of the diversity of species used by people is thus essential for the sustainable management of plant resources. Here, we investigate the global distribution of 35,687 utilized plant species spanning 10 use categories (e.g., food, medicine, material). Our findings indicate general concordance between utilized and total plant diversity, supporting the potential for simultaneously conserving species diversity and its contributions to people. Although Indigenous lands across Mesoamerica, the Horn of Africa, and Southern Asia harbor a disproportionate diversity of utilized plants, the incidence of protected areas is negatively correlated with utilized species richness. Finding mechanisms to preserve areas containing concentrations of utilized plants and traditional knowledge must become a priority for the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

DOI: adg8028

Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg8028