How belowground interactions contribute to the coexistence of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal species in severely phosphorus-impoverished hyperdiverse …

H Lambers, F Albornoz, L Kotula, E Laliberté… - Plant and Soil, 2018 - Springer
Background Mycorrhizal strategies are very effective in enhancing plant acquisition of poorly-
mobile nutrients, particularly phosphorus (P) from infertile soil. However, on very old and …

Mediterranean biomes: evolution of their vegetation, floras, and climate

PW Rundel, MTK Arroyo, RM Cowling… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs) are located today in southwestern Australia, the
Cape Region of South Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, California, and central Chile. These …

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

SD Hopper, FAO Silveira, PL Fiedler - Plant and Soil, 2016 - Springer
Background Ocbil theory aims to develop hypotheses explaining the evolution and ecology
of, and best conservation practices for, biota on very old, climatically buffered, infertile …

Fire and plant diversification in Mediterranean-climate regions

PW Rundel, MTK Arroyo, RM Cowling… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Despite decades of broad interest in global patterns of biodiversity, little attention has been
given to understanding the remarkable levels of plant diversity present in the world's five …

Using species distribution modeling to delineate the botanical richness patterns and phytogeographical regions of China

MG Zhang, JWF Slik, KP Ma - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The millions of plant specimens that have been collected and stored in Chinese herbaria
over the past~ 110 years have recently been digitized and geo-referenced. Here we use this …

OCBIL theory examined: reassessing evolution, ecology and conservation in the world's ancient, climatically buffered and infertile landscapes

SD Hopper, H Lambers, FAO Silveira… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
OCBIL theory was introduced as a contribution towards understanding the evolution,
ecology and conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of old, climatically buffered …

Red-Edge Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI705) from Sentinel-2 imagery to assess post-fire regeneration

C Evangelides, A Nobajas - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Obtaining post-fire information from a burnt region is of paramount importance in
applications such as examining the disturbance of natural ecosystems and in providing …

An escape-to-radiate model for explaining the high plant diversity and endemism in campos rupestres

A Rapini, C Bitencourt, F Luebert… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
With extraordinary levels of plant diversity and endemism, the Brazilian campos rupestres
across the Espinhaço Range have a species/area ratio 40 times higher than the lowland …

Assessing the geological and climatic forcing of biodiversity and evolution surrounding the Gulf of California

GA Dolby, SEK Bennett, A Lira-Noriega, BT Wilder… - Journal of the …, 2015 - JSTOR
For almost a century the Baja California peninsula (Pen of California (Gulf), and broader
Sonoran Desert region (fig drawn geologists and biologists alike to study its unique …

A new phytogeographic map for the Southwest Australian Floristic Region after an exceptional decade of collection and discovery

P Gioia, SD Hopper - Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017 - academic.oup.com
After an 11-year period of exceptional specimen acquisition, we evaluated the robustness of
the Western Australian Herbarium Specimen Database in elucidating patterns of diversity …