Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is
essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation …

Endemism and species richness are highly relevant to the global prioritization of
conservation efforts in which oceanic islands have remained relatively neglected. When …

Aims We present the first global map of vascular plant species richness by ecoregion and
compare these results with the published literature on global priorities for plant conservation …

The accumulation of biodiversity in tropical forests can occur through multiple allopatric and
parapatric models of diversification, including forest refugia, riverine barriers and ecological …

This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the
116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional …

The diversity of vascular plants is very unevenly distributed across the globe. The five
centres that reach species richness of more than 5,000 spp./10,000 km2 (Costa Rica-Chocó …

Background Understanding the patterns of biodiversity distribution and what influences them
is a fundamental pre-requisite for effective conservation and sustainable utilisation of …

Determining where species diversify (cradles) and persist (museums) over evolutionary time
is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity and for conservation …

Knowledge on spatial distribution of biodiversity is crucial for its further exploration, use, and
conservation. The relevance of this–in the context of politics and conservation–is …