Assessing the distribution of geographically restricted and evolutionarily unique species and
their underlying drivers is key to understanding biogeographical processes and critical for …

Aim Alpine ecosystems differ in area, macroenvironment and biogeographical history across
the Earth, but the relationship between these factors and plant species richness is still …

The monumental work of Olov Hedberg provided deep insights into the spectacular and
fragmented tropical alpine flora of the African sky islands. Here we review recent molecular …

Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

A prominent hypothesis in ecology is that larger species ranges are found in more variable
climates because species develop broader environmental tolerances, predicting a positive …

Islands are fundamental model systems in ecology, biogeography, and evolutionary biology.
However, terrestrial islands, unlike their aquatic counterparts, have received comparatively …

Some of the largest impacts of climate change are expected in the environmentally
heterogeneous and species rich high mountain ecosystems. Among those, the Neotropical …

Protected Areas (PA) play a pivotal role in conservation biology. Climate change challenges
the concept of static PAs as species may not find suitable climatic conditions in the PAs …

Climate change impacts are of a particular concern in small mountain ranges, where cold-
adapted plant species have their optimum zone in the upper bioclimatic belts. This is …

Endemics co‐occur because they evolved in situ and persist regionally or because they
evolved ex situ and later dispersed to shared habitats, generating evolutionary or ecological …