The flora of the Chagos Archipelago: a conservation checklist of native and introduced plant species

2026 · doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479
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Preprint ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479 (27 Jan 2026) https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479 (27 Jan 2026) Submitted to Biodiversity Data Journal Other versions: - Preprint InfoPreprint Info - CiteCite - MetricsMetrics - CommentComment - RelatedRelated - CitedCited ARPHA Preprints doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479 First posted 27 Jan 2026 Authors Quentin Groom - Corresponding author Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium Natural Resource Specialist at Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom Gibraltar Botanic Gardens, Gibraltar, Gibraltar Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom SWCA Environmental Consultants, Honolulu, United States of America Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum, Nottingham, United Kingdom Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Supporting agencies The authors are grateful to the UK Defra Darwin Plus for funding fieldwork linked to this study (reference DarwinPlus151 Building knowledge of invasive species on Diego Garcia). QG acknowledges the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen - FWO) for a Travel Grant for a short stay abroad (K212123N). SM acknowledges the financial support provided by the Leopold III Fund. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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