The Sino-Japanese Floristic Region (SJFR) of East Asia harbors the most diverse of the
world's temperate flora, and was the most important glacial refuge for its Tertiary …

Today's scientists are facing the enormous challenge of predicting how climate change will
affect species distributions and species assemblages. To do so, ecologists are widely using …

Ecologists are increasingly adopting an evolutionary perspective, and in recent years, the
idea that closely related species are ecologically similar has become widespread. In this …

Aim There have been numerous studies of forest‐soil microbial biogeography, but an
integrated view of edaphic factors, plant, climatic factors, and geographic distance in …

How and why organisms are distributed as they are has long intrigued evolutionary
biologists,,,. The tendency for species to retain their ancestral ecology has been …

Consideration of the scale at which communities are defined both taxonomically and
spatially can reconcile apparently contradictory results on the extent to which plants show …

Abstract The East Asian flora (EAF) is a key biodiversity hotspot for understanding the origin
and evolution of Northern Hemisphere floras, but there is an ongoing debate on whether it is …

Species selection in the broad sense—also termed species sorting—shapes evolutionary
patterns through differences in speciation and extinction rates (and their net outcome, often …

Species turnover, or beta diversity, has been predicted to decrease with increasing latitude,
but few studies have tested this relationship. Here, we examined the beta diversity–latitude …

Temperate woody plants in the Northern Hemisphere have long been known to exhibit high
species richness in East Asia and North America and significantly lower diversity in Europe …