A vegetation classification approach is needed that can describe the diversity of terrestrial
ecosystems and their transformations over large time frames, span the full range of spatial …

Tropical lowland South America boasts a diversity of vegetation cover as impressive, and
often as bewildering, as its diversity of plant species. In this essay, we attempt to describe …

Neotropical Biogeography: Regionalization and Evolution presents the most comprehensive
single-source treatment of the Neotropical region derived from evolutionary biogeographic …

This new addition to the prestigious Systematics Association Special Volumes Series is the
first extensive compilation of the patterns of plant biodiversity in the species-rich savannas …

The high species richness and diversity found in tropical montane habitats are often related
to: 1) an effect of climatic and geological history on biotic evolution; 2) the various …

An improved understanding of present-day climate variability and change relies on high-
quality data sets from the past 2 millennia. Global efforts to model regional climate modes …

The cornerstone of palaeoecological research, concerned with vegetation dynamics over
the recent geological past, is a good understanding of the present-day ecology and …

TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL dry forests around the globe are experiencing rapid
clearing and concomitant biodiversity loss (1). In their Research Article “Plant diversity …

An interim hierarchical classification (ie biogeographical regionalisation or area taxonomy)
of the world's terrestrial regions is provided, following the work of Morrone published in …

Biological invasions affect virtually all ecosystems on earth, but the degree to which different
regions and biomes are invaded, and the quality of information from different regions, varies …