The relative weights of physical forcing and biotic interaction as drivers of evolutionary
change have been debated in evolutionary theory. The recent finding that species, genera …

Global climate changes during the Quaternary reveal much about broader evolutionary
effects of environmental change. Detailed regional studies reveal how evolutionary lineages …

Aim Biogeographical regionalizations, such as zoogeographical regions, floristic kingdoms
or ecoregions, represent categorizations central to many basic and applied questions in …

Aim To test whether it is possible to establish a common biogeographical regionalization for
plants and vertebrates in sub‐Saharan Africa (the Afrotropical Region), using objective …

Aim To propose a unified framework for quantifying taxon (T β), phylogenetic (P β) and
functional (F β) beta diversity via pairwise comparisons of communities, which allows these …

Finding subsets of a dataset that somehow deviate from the norm, ie where something
interesting is going on, is a classical Data Mining task. In traditional local pattern mining …

Our aims were to quantify and map the plant sub regions of the the Caatinga, that covers
844,453 km2 and is the largest block of seasonally dry forest in South America. We …

Large data is challenging for most existing discovery algorithms, for several reasons. First of
all, such data leads to enormous hypothesis spaces, making exhaustive search infeasible …

Environmental sorting, historical factors and neutral dynamics may all drive beta diversity
(change in species composition across space), but their relative importance remains …

The species pool concept has played a central role in the development of ecological theory
for at least 60 yr. Surprisingly, there is little consensus as to how one should define the …