[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity hotspots: A shortcut for a more complicated concept

C Marchese - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
In an era of human activities, global environmental changes, habitat loss and species
extinction, conservation strategies are a crucial step toward minimizing biodiversity loss. For …

The endemic vascular flora of Sardinia: a dynamic checklist with an overview of biogeography and conservation status

M Fois, E Farris, G Calvia, G Campus, G Fenu… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The vascular flora of Sardinia has been investigated for more than 250 years, with particular
attention to the endemic component due to their phylogeographic and conservation interest …

Hotspots within a global biodiversity hotspot-areas of endemism are associated with high mountain ranges

J Noroozi, A Talebi, M Doostmohammadi, SB Rumpf… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Conservation biology aims at identifying areas of rich biodiversity. Currently recognized
global biodiversity hotspots are spatially too coarse for conservation management and …

Red Listing plants under full national responsibility: Extinction risk and threats in the vascular flora endemic to Italy

S Orsenigo, C Montagnani, G Fenu, D Gargano… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Taxa endemic to a country are key elements for setting national conservation priorities and
for driving conservation strategies, since their persistence is entirely dependent on national …

ssdm: An r package to predict distribution of species richness and composition based on stacked species distribution models

S Schmitt, R Pouteau, D Justeau… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing interest among conservationists in biodiversity map** based on stacked
species distribution models (SSDM s), a method that combines multiple individual species …

Impacts of landscape patterns on plant species diversity at a global scale

H **, J Xu, Y Peng, J **n, N Peng, Y Li, J Huang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Landscape patterns are important drivers of biodiversity. Owing to differences in vegetation
types, sampling methods, diversity measures, spatial scales, and landscape levels, the …

Plant endemism centres and biodiversity hotspots in Greece

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, A Kallimanis… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

Endemic diversity and distribution of the Iranian vascular flora across phytogeographical regions, biodiversity hotspots and areas of endemism

J Noroozi, A Talebi, M Doostmohammadi… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Endemism is one of the most important concepts in biogeography and is of high relevance
for conservation biology. Nevertheless, our understanding of patterns of endemism is still …

Environmental variables drive plant species composition and distribution in the moist temperate forests of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan

IU Rahman, RE Hart, F Ijaz, A Afzal, Z Iqbal, ES Calixto… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
By assessing plant species composition and distribution in biodiversity hotspots influenced
by environmental gradients, we greatly advance our understanding of the local plant …

Diversity hotspots and conservation gaps for the Chinese endemic seed flora

J Huang, J Huang, C Liu, J Zhang, X Lu, K Ma - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
The flora in China is highly endemic. Decisions about conservation and management of
biodiversity based on hotspots and conservation gaps of endemic seed plant species …