Nearly Half of Plants May Face Extinction
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The percentage of the world’s plants threatened with extinction is much larger than commonly believed, and could be as high as 47% if tropical species are included, researchers reported in Friday’s Science.
The study challenges research that estimated the number of species in danger of extinction was about 13%. Previous studies of endangered plants underestimated the numbers because they failed to include many plants growing in tropical countries such as Ecuador and Colombia.
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