Extinction Risk Predictions for the World's Flowering Plants

Extinction Risk Predictions for the World's Flowering Plants

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The Brugmansia sanguinea is officially assessed as Extinct in the Wild on the IUCN Red List. This new study means that everyone—from an individual choosing their first houseplant to a professional biodiversity researcher—can look up any species online and immediately see whether it is probable that it is threatened with extinction. The researchers used a Bayesian Additive Regression Trees model trained on a dataset of more than 53,000 plants already assessed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

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