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Threatened medicinal plants in China: Distributions and conservation priorities

2017-06-01

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Medicinal plants are more vulnerable to threats than non-medicinal plants. In China, a large number of medicinal plants are threatened by human activities and climate change, which greatly affect the conservation of species diversity, genetic resources and sustainable development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry. In this study, we established the first database for the distributions of 535 threatened m...

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Literature Corpus work: c95a43a7-1bb0-550f-b99e-07d5f67a7b66
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.04.015

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