The South Brazilian grasslands occupy some 13.7 million ha and support very high levels of
biodiversity. This paper reviews the current state of ecological knowledge on South Brazilian …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Plants are widely as antidiabetics. The study of
these plants is essential because many of them may have undesirable effects, such as acute …

Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet
quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive …

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and
the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical …

Molecular phylogenetic studies have become a major area of interest in plant systematics,
and their impacts on historical biogeographic hypotheses are not to be disregarded. In …

Plant‐diversity hotspots on a global scale are well established, but smaller local hotspots
within these must be identified for effective conservation of plants at the global and local …

Diets are simultaneously connected with population health and environment. The EAT-
Lancet Commission proposed a sustainable reference diet to improve population health and …

Phylogenetic definitions are provided for the names of 53 clades of vascular plants.
Emphasis has been placed on well‐supported clades that are widely known to non …

Brazil is one of the world's richest megadiversity coun-tries, vying with Indonesia for the title
of our planet's biologically wealthiest nation. Privileged as it is, however, it rarely attracts …

A high level of endemic flowering plant species is highlighted for the first time for the
southern Brazilian flora. We present a comprehensive list of 1020 endemic taxa and analyse …