Plants humans don’t need are heading for extinction, study finds

Bleak picture for biodiversity as analysis of over 80,000 species forecasts more losers than winners

Researchers have categorised more than 80,000 plant species worldwide and found that most of them will lose" in the face of humanity - going extinct because people don't need them.

This means that plant communities of the future will be hugely more homogenised than those of today, according to the paper published in the journal Plants, People, Planet.