A biogeographic regionalisation of the Andean region is proposed as a hierarchical
classification of sub-regions, provinces, sub-provinces and districts. It is based on …

Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of
organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific …

Posadas et al.'s (2001) analysis of conservation priority setting for southern South America
highlights the fact that" conservation of biodiversity requires knowledge of its history." In …

Quaternary climate fluctuations can affect speciation in regional biodiversity assembly in two
non-mutually exclusive ways: a glacial species pump, where isolation in glacial refugia …

We propose a new approach for identification of areas of endemism, the Geographical
Interpolation of Endemism (GIE), based on kernel spatial interpolation. This method differs …

With few exceptions, copepods dominate over other crustacean and non‐crustacean
invertebrate groups in ground water. They have colonised a vast array of habitats in …

The majority of biodiversity assessments use species as the base unit. Recently, a series of
studies have suggested replacing numbers of species with higher ranked taxa (genera …

Traditional measures of biodiversity, such as species richness, usually treat species as
being equal. As this is obviously not the case, measuring diversity in terms of features …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Lung cancer has been recognized as the primary global cause of death among cancer
patients. This work is intended to develop a methodology for diagnosis of lung nodules …