Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Bryophytes were a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the
regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly …

Background: Chile is committed to extending its National System of Protected Areas (NSPA),
focusing on eco-regions whose ecosystems are currently under-represented in the NSPA. A …

Cold environments at high elevation and high latitude are often viewed as resistant to
biological invasions. However, climate warming, land use change and associated increased …

Abstract The 14th Cary Conference and this book Linking Ecology and Ethics for a
Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action reconnect the theoretical reason of …

In the face of decreasing biodiversity and ongoing global changes, maintaining ecosystem
functioning is seen both as a means to preserve biological diversity as well as for …

It remains hotly debated whether latitudinal diversity gradients are common across
taxonomic groups and whether a single mechanism can explain such gradients …

Modern ethics has decoupled human habits from the habitats where they take place, as if
humans and their identities could exist in isolation from their habitats and other-than-human …

Both macroclimate and evolutionary events may influence symbiont association and
diversity patterns. Here we assess how climatic factors and evolutionary events shape …

Chilean Patagonia encompasses the two southernmost terrestrial ecoregions of the
temperate forest biome of South America (North-Patagonian and Sub-Antarctic Magellanic) …