Aim The factors that set species range limits underlie many patterns in ecology, evolution,
biogeography and conservation. These factors have been the subject of several reviews, but …

Competitive exclusion and habitat filtering influence community assembly, but ecologists
and evolutionary biologists have not reached consensus on how to quantify patterns that …

Aims The aim of this article is 3-fold. First, we present an updated version of a published
megaphylogeny of vascular plants that can be used in studies of plant ecology and …

Phylogenies are essential to studies investigating the effect of evolutionary history on
assembly of species in ecological communities and geographical and ecological patterns of …

Our knowledge about the structure and function of Andean forests at regional scales
remains limited. Current initiatives to study forests over continental or global scales still have …

Latitudinal diversity gradients are underlain by complex combinations of origination,
extinction, and shifts in geographic distribution and therefore are best analyzed by …

Our aims were to quantify and map the plant ecoregions of the Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity
hotspot that covers ca 150 million ha in eastern South America. We used a data set on the …

Aim To test two predictions of the phylogenetic niche conservatism hypothesis for the
latitudinal diversity gradient:(1) species in colder regions tend to be more phylogenetically …

Phylobetadiversity is defined as the phylogenetic resemblance between communities or
biomes. Analyzing phylobetadiversity patterns among different vegetation physiognomies …

Abstract Oxybaphus himalaicus Edgew.(Nyctaginaceae) is the only native species of
Oxybaphus occurring outside of the Western Hemisphere. Unfortunately, very little is known …