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 …

Nonrandom collecting practices may bias conclusions drawn from analyses of herbarium
records. Recent efforts to fully digitize and mobilize regional floras online offer a timely …

Climate and topography are among the most fundamental drivers of plant diversity. Here, we
assessed the importance of climate and topography in explaining diversity patterns of …

Deciphering global trends in phylogenetic endemism is crucial for understanding broad-
scale evolutionary patterns and the conservation of key elements of biodiversity. However …

Vascular plants are diverse and a major component of terrestrial ecosystems, yet their
geographic distributions remain incomplete. Here, I present a global database of vascular …

Current geographic patterns of biodiversity are a consequence of the evolutionary history of
the lineages that comprise them. This study was aimed at exploring how evolutionary …

The biodiversity crisis is pruning the Tree of Life in a way that threatens billions of years of
evolutionary history and there is a need to understand where the greatest losses are …

Aim We mapped global patterns of tree phylogenetic endemism (PE) to identify hotspots and
test hypotheses about possible drivers. Specifically, we tested hypotheses related to current …

Aim The conservation value of sites is often based on species richness (SR). However,
metrics of phylogenetic diversity (PD) reflect a community's evolutionary potential and reveal …

The African Centre for DNA Barcoding (ACDB) was established in 2005 as part of a global
initiative to accurately and rapidly survey biodiversity using short DNA sequences. The …