What Percentage of Plant Species Are Woody?
Woody versus herbaceous is one of the major axes of life history variation in plants. We sought to find the answer to the seemingly simple question: what percentage of plant species in the world are woody? We asked a small group of botanists this question and got an extraordinarily wide variety of answers. In addition to tallying up the species numbers, we thought it would be interesting to survey biology-types to see if a general consensus answer exists. Please take a couple of seconds to fill out our questionnaire. Thanks! Answer coming out soon in a journal near you.
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What percentage of the world's vascular plant species are woody? *
For simplicity, we define woody plants as those which have a perennial aboveground stem (examples below if you want them). The answer can either be a point estimate or a range.
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 By our definition pines, maples, palms, bamboos, tree ferns, and lianas are woody; corn, bananas, tulips, and tomatoes are not
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