High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges.

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dc.creatorBrockington, Samuel F
dc.creatorMalcolm, Patricia
dc.creatorAiello, Anthony S
dc.creatorAlmeida, Thaís H
dc.creatorApple, Margeaux
dc.creatorAragón-Rodríguez, Sandra
dc.creatorArbour, Thomas P
dc.creatorBarreiro, Graciela
dc.creatorPhillips-Bernal, Juan Fernando
dc.creatorBorsch, Thomas
dc.creatorCano, Angela
dc.creatorChoo, Thereis
dc.creatorCoffey, Emily ED
dc.creatorCrowley, Dan
dc.creatorDeverell, Richard
dc.creatorDemissew, Sebsebe
dc.creatorDempewolf, Hannes
dc.creatorDiazgranados, Mauricio
dc.creatorFalcón-Hidalgo, Banessa
dc.creatorFranczyk, Jean
dc.creatorFreeth, Thomas
dc.creatorFreid, Ethan
dc.creatorGale, Stephan W
dc.creatorGriffith, M Patrick
dc.creatorGüntsch, Anton
dc.creatorHart, Clare
dc.creatorHearsum, James
dc.creatorHollingsworth, Peter M
dc.creatorJustice, Douglas
dc.creatorKirkwood, Donovan
dc.creatorKhoury, Colin K
dc.creatorKnapp, Wesley M
dc.creatorKool, Anneleen
dc.creatorKoski, Jill
dc.creatorKum, Tessa
dc.creatorNiu, Yang
dc.creatorLöhne, Cornelia
dc.creatorLupton, Darach A
dc.creatorMagombo, Zacharia
dc.creatorManrique, Esteban
dc.creatorMartín, María P
dc.creatorMartinelli, Gustavo
dc.creatorMcGinnis, Donna
dc.creatorNeale, Jennifer R
dc.creatorNewman, Patrick
dc.creatorNovy, Ari
dc.creatorPark, Tim
dc.creatorPell, Susan
dc.creatorPirie, Michael D
dc.creatorPuente-Martinez, Raul
dc.creatorRen, Hai
dc.creatorReynders, Marc
dc.creatorRodríguez-Cerón, Nicolás
dc.creatorRønsted, Nina
dc.creatorSchoenenberger, Nicola
dc.creatorSenekal, Anna Maria
dc.creatorSucher, Rebecca
dc.creatorSummerell, Brett
dc.creatorSummers, Alex
dc.creatorTan, Puay Y
dc.creatorTornevall, Hanna
dc.creatorWalsh, Seana K
dc.creatorWashburn, Chad
dc.creatorWiland-Szymańska, Justyna
dc.creatorWang, Qing-Feng
dc.creatorWillis, Christopher
dc.creatorWyatt, Andrew
dc.creatorWyse Jackson, Peter
dc.creatorYu, Wen-Bin
dc.creatorSmith, Paul
dc.date2026-02-24T00:30:24Z
dc.date2026-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-03T01:34:55Z
dc.descriptionDocumented living plant collections distinguish botanic gardens from other green spaces and horticultural landscapes. With more than 3,500 collections worldwide, these institutions steward at least 105,634 species-around 30% of all land plant diversity-while fulfilling amenity, educational, scientific and conservation roles. However, twenty-first-century challenges demand a re-evaluation of how these collections are documented and managed. We argue that meeting these emerging needs requires higher standards of coordinated information management and innovation in data infrastructures across the global network. This Perspective critically examines data management practices of living collections supporting scientific research and conservation, from institutional to global levels. We identify the renewed demands on living collections, highlight exemplar global data infrastructures, define data challenges inherent to living collections and explore how current systems fall short in enabling a connected global system. Finally, we outline a vision for high-performance collections, fully integrated into a robust global data ecosystem.
dc.formatPrint-Electronic
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifier2055-026X
dc.identifierhttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/398830
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.127580
dc.identifier2055-0278
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/156200
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.publisherDepartment of Plant Sciences
dc.publisherhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02192-6
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEcosystem
dc.subjectConservation of Natural Resources
dc.subjectPlants
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectData Management
dc.subjectBotany
dc.titleHigh-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges.
dc.typeArticle

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