Effective conservation of biodiversity should build on a strong basis of taxonomic and spatial distribution knowledge. The Carpathian Mountains, an iconic centre of biodiversity in temperate Europe, harbour a remarkable number of endemic vascular plants. Current knowledge on their taxonomic status, spatial distribution and genetic diversity is, however, incomplete. Research and conservation efforts have mostly been country specific, resulting in contrasting chorological knowledge and taxonomic acceptance between neighbouring countries, and differing conservation policies. Urgent synchronisation of cross-border conservation measures is required. Here, we present an overview of a new international project that will address these issues, outlining the current state of knowledge and theoretical background concerning Carpathian subendemics and endemics in order to improve their conservation status. The project involves partners from eight countries, working collaboratively in conservation, research and sharing of standardised data for the Carpathian flora. Long-term seed conservation of 500 species, with a focus on endemics, regionally endangered species and range-margin populations from the Carpathians, will be used as an effective measure for the conservation of Carpathian endemics and endangered species. Research focused on the biosystematics of selected taxa will increase our knowledge of the evolutionary processes involved in the origin of the Carpathian flora. Finally, the establishment of the Carpathian Research Network (CRN) provides an official framework for pooling, sharing and standardising scientific data on Carpathian endemics from different countries. The CRN is developing an online database of the distribution of selected species (The Carpathian Endemics Distribution Database, CEDD) including their intrinsic and extrinsic traits and current opinion on their taxonomic status. This will be used to produce a monograph on the Carpathians’ endemic flora.

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保护喀尔巴阡地区特有植物群：一个国际项目，旨在增加和分享喀尔巴阡特有物种的分布、进化和分类知识，并保护濒危物种

生物多样性的有效保护应建立在强大的分类学和空间分布知识基础之上。喀尔巴阡山脉是欧洲温带生物多样性的标志性中心，拥有数量可观的地方性维管植物。然而，目前对其分类地位、空间分布和遗传多样性的了解并不完整。研究和保护工作大多是针对特定国家的，导致邻国之间存在差异的地方志知识和分类学接受度，以及不同的保护政策。需要紧急同步跨境保护措施。在这里，我们概述了一个将解决这些问题的新国际项目，概述有关喀尔巴阡山脉亚地方性和地方性的知识和理论背景的现状，以提高其保护状况。该项目涉及来自八个国家的合作伙伴，在喀尔巴阡山脉植物群的保护、研究和标准化数据共享方面展开合作。以喀尔巴阡山脉特有、区域性濒危物种和边缘种群为重点的500个物种长期种子保护，将作为喀尔巴阡特有物种和濒危物种保护的有效措施。专注于选定分类群的生物系统学的研究将增加我们对喀尔巴阡植物群起源所涉及的进化过程的了解。最后，喀尔巴阡研究网络（CRN）的建立提供了一个正式的池化框架，共享和标准化来自不同国家的喀尔巴阡流行病的科学数据。CRN 正在开发一个关于选定物种分布的在线数据库（喀尔巴阡特有种分布数据库，CEDD），包括它们的内在和外在特征以及对其分类状态的当前看法。这将用于制作关于喀尔巴阡山特有植物群的专着。