Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

There is a clear link between human developmental strides and biodiversity status on the
African continent. The link exists in the form of drivers, outlooks, emergent properties and …

Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the
Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published checklists …

Climate change is altering the distributions of species, which in turn causes shifts in the
composition of plant communities. Specifically, rising temperatures should cause increasing …

This paper follows the transition from ethnobotany to a deeper scientific understanding of the
food and medicinal properties of African agroforestry tree products as inputs into the start of …

Africa is forecasted to experience large and rapid climate change and population growth
during the twenty-first century, which threatens the world's second largest rainforest …

Recent years have seen an explosion in the availability of biodiversity data describing the
distribution, function, and evolutionary history of life on earth. Integrating these …

Determining where species diversify (cradles) and persist (museums) over evolutionary time
is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity and for conservation …

Biodiversity is declining globally, yet many biodiversity hotspots still lack comprehensive
species conservation assessments. Using multiple International Union for Conservation of …

Preserving tropical biodiversity is an urgent challenge when faced with the growing needs of
countries. Despite their crucial importance for terrestrial ecosystems, most tropical plant …