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 …

A biome is a key community ecological and biogeographical concept and, as such, has
profited from the overall progress of community ecology, punctuated by two major …

Biogeographical regionalization is the classification of regions in terms of their biota and is
key to our understanding of the ecological and historical drivers affecting species distribution …

Poales are one of the most species‐rich, ecologically and economically important orders of
plants and often characterise open habitats, enabled by unique suites of traits. We test six …

Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established
environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of …

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

Although climate change projections indicate significant threats to terrestrial biodiversity, the
effects are much more profound and striking in the marine environment. Here we explore …

Areas of endemism are important in biogeography because they capture facets of
biodiversity not represented elsewhere. However, the scales at which they are relevant to …

Uncertainties from sampling biases present challenges to ecologists and evolutionary
biologists in understanding species sensitivity to anthropogenic climate change. Here, we …

Aim A common approach for prioritizing conservation is to identify concentrations (hotspots)
of biodiversity. Such hotspots have traditionally been designated on the basis of species …