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Published May 19, 2020 | Version v1
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Using online databases to produce comprehensive accounts of the vascular plants from the Brazilian protected areas: The Parque Nacional do Itatiaia as a case study

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  • 1. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil|Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
  • 3. Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Brazil
  • 4. Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
  • 5. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 6. Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 7. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 8. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil|Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, Brazil
  • 9. Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 10. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil|Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil
  • 11. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • 12. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 13. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
  • 14. Embrapa Clima Temperado, Pelotas, Brazil
  • 15. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
  • 16. Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
  • 17. Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
  • 18. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Brazil
  • 19. Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei, São João Del-Rei, Brazil
  • 20. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
  • 21. Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 22. The Flowr Corporation, Markham, Canada
  • 23. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 24. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
  • 25. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, with about 37,000 species of land plants. Part of this biodiversity is within protected areas. The development of online databases in the last years greatly improved the available biodiversity data. However, the existing databases do not provide information about the protected areas in which individual plant species occur. The lack of such information is a crucial gap for conservation actions. This study aimed to show how the information captured from online databases, cleaned by a protocol and verified by taxonomists allowed us to obtain a comprehensive list of the vascular plant species from the "Parque Nacional do Itatiaia", the first national park founded in Brazil. All existing records in the online database JABOT (15,100 vouchers) were downloaded, resulting in 11,783 vouchers identified at the species level. Overall, we documented 2,316 species belonging to 176 families and 837 genera of vascular plants in the "Parque Nacional do Itatiaia". Considering the whole vascular flora, 2,238 species are native and 78 are non-native.

The "Parque Nacional do Itatiaia" houses 13% of the angiosperm and 37% of the fern species known from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Amongst these species, 82 have been cited as threatened, following IUCN categories (CR, EN or VU), seven are data deficient (DD) and 15 have been classified as a conservation priority, because they are only known from a single specimen collected before 1969.

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