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The World's Most Endangered Bryophytes
Here you find the 2000 IUCN World Red List of Bryophytes proposed by the members in the specialist group for Bryophytes connected to IUCN (a so called SSC-group) and compiled by Dr. Benito C. Tan, Dr. Patricia Geissler, Mr. Tomas Hallingbäck and Dr. Lars Söderström.
The present World Red List of Bryophytes includes 92 species. This is merely a selection of species in order to show examples of threatened species world-wide. This means that this list represent only a small subset of globally threatened species, a selection which give the public a rough idea of what kind of mosses, liverworts and hornworts are threatened by extinction.
This database was put together by Dr. M. Ignatov in Moscow and Associate Professor Benito Tan by merging two recently published moss checklists: one for China (Redfearn et al., 1996, Journ. Hattori Bot. Lab. 79: 163-357) and another one for the Indochina (Tan and Iwatsuki, 1993, Journ. Hattori Bot. Lab. 74: 325-405).
East Asia is a vast and geologically old continent encompassing China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan and Indochina. The area covered by this database includes the highest mountain peak and the lowest land point on earth.
The total moss taxa known from East Asia is more than 2,000 species, representing nearly 1/5 of the world's total moss diversity.
The construction of a database of Malesian mosses started many years ago when Associate Professor Benito Tan was a Research Associate at the Farlow Herbarium of the Harvard University.
Malesia is a vast geographical region spanning across the tropical Asia from Peninsular Malaya to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
There are about 1770 species in 330 genera of mosses in Malesia.
