Plants are a hyperdiverse clade that plays a key role in maintaining ecological and
evolutionary processes as well as human livelihoods. Biases, gaps and uncertainties in …

Geographic range size has long fascinated ecologists and evolutionary biologists, yet our
understanding of the factors that cause variation in range size among species and across …

Evidence exists that tree mortality is accelerating in some regions of the tropics,, with
profound consequences for the future of the tropical carbon sink and the global …

The distributions of amphibians, birds and mammals have underpinned global and local
conservation priorities, and have been fundamental to our understanding of the …

Many studies have estimated the adverse effects of climate change on crop yields, however,
this literature almost universally assumes a constant geographic distribution of crops in the …

A key feature of life's diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.
Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare …

Human use of the land (for agriculture and settlements) has a substantial negative effect on
biodiversity globally. However, not all species are adversely affected by land use, and …

The processes causing the latitudinal gradient in species richness remain elusive.
Ecological theories for the origin of biodiversity gradients, such as competitive exclusion …

Aim To understand how functional traits and evolutionary history shape the geographic
distribution of plant life on Earth, we need to integrate high‐quality and global‐scale …

To test the hitherto generally-accepted hypothesis that most aquatic macrophytes have
broad world distributions, we investigated the global distribution, diversity and endemism …