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An annotated checklist of the coastal forests of Kenya, East Africa.
PhytoKeys ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 , DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.147.49602
Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau 1, 2, 3, 4 , Quentin Luke 4 , Mwadime Nyange 4 , Vincent Okelo Wanga 1, 2, 3 , Benjamin Muema Watuma 1, 2, 3 , Yuvenalis Morara Mbuni 1, 2, 3, 4 , Jacinta Ndunge Munyao 1, 2, 3 , Millicent Akinyi Oulo 1, 2, 3 , Elijah Mbandi Mkala 1, 2, 3 , Solomon Kipkoech 1, 2, 3 , Malombe Itambo 4 , Guang-Wan Hu 1, 2 , Qing-Feng Wang 1, 2
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The inadequacy of information impedes society's competence to find out the cause or degree of a problem or even to avoid further losses in an ecosystem. It becomes even harder to identify all the biological resources at risk because there is no exhaustive inventory of either fauna or flora of a particular region. Coastal forests of Kenya are located in the southeast part of Kenya and are distributed mainly in four counties: Kwale, Kilifi, Lamu, and Tana River County. They are a stretch of fragmented forests ca. 30-120 km away from the Indian Ocean, and they have existed for millions of years. Diversity of both fauna and flora is very high in these relicts and the coastal forests of Eastern Africa, extending along the coast from Somalia through Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique, are ranked among the priority biodiversity hotspot in the world. In spite of the high plant species richness and their importance towards supporting the livelihoods of the communities that live around them, floristic studies in these forests have remained poorly investigated. Hence, based on numerous field investigations, plant lists from published monograph/literature, and data from BRAHMS (Botanical Records and Herbarium Management System) database at East African herbarium (EA), we present a detailed checklist of vascular plants recorded in this region. Our results show that Kenyan coastal forests play an essential role in the flora of Kenya and the plant diversity of the coastal forests of East Africa. The checklist represents 176 families, 981 genera, 2489 species, 100 infraspecific taxa, 90 endemic plants species, 72 exotic species, and 120 species that are included in the current IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as species of major concern. We also discovered three new species to the world from these relicts. Thus, Kenyan coastal forests present a remarkable and significant center of plant diversity.

中文翻译:

东非肯尼亚沿海森林的带注释清单。

信息不足会阻碍社会发现问题的原因或程度,甚至避免生态系统进一步损失的能力。由于没有详尽的特定区域动植物种群清单,因此很难确定所有处于危险之中的生物资源。肯尼亚的沿海森林位于肯尼亚的东南部,主要分布在四个县:夸勒,基利菲,拉穆和塔纳河县。他们是一片零散的森林。距印度洋30-120公里,它们已经存在了数百万年。在这些遗迹中,动植物的多样性非常高,东非的沿海森林从索马里到肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚一直延伸到莫桑比克,是世界上最重要的生物多样性热点地区。尽管植物物种丰富度高,并且它们对于支持周围社区的生计具有重要意义,但对这些森林的植物学研究仍然很少。因此,基于大量现场调查,已出版专着/文献中的植物清单以及东非植物标本室(EA)的BRAHMS(植物记录和植物标本室管理系统)数据库的数据,我们提供了该地区记录的维管植物的详细清单。我们的结果表明,肯尼亚的沿海森林在肯尼亚的植物区系和东非沿海森林的植物多样性中起着至关重要的作用。该清单代表176个科,981个属,2489种,100种亚种,90种特有植物,72种外来物种,目前列入《世界自然保护联盟濒危物种红色名录》的120种物种是最受关注的物种。我们还从这些遗迹中发现了三个新物种。因此,肯尼亚的沿海森林是植物多样性的重要中心。
更新日期:2020-05-12
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