XVI International Botanical Congess
One efficient way of achieving relatively complete botanical inventories is to involve scientists and members of local communities in a collaborative collecting programme. Community-based collecting has not previously been compared quantitatively with conventional ways of conducting botanical surveys. Analysis of floristic and ethnobotanical collections on Mount Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia) reveals that community-based collectors increased recorded palm taxa by 65.3%, and monocotyledons by 28%, in 4.5 years.