The Andes are the world's most biodiverse mountain chain, encompassing a complex array
of ecosystems from tropical rainforests to alpine habitats. We provide a synthesis of Andean …

We compare the numbers of vascular plant species in the three major tropical areas. The
Afrotropical Region (Africa south of the Sahara Desert plus Madagascar), roughly equal in …

New Guinea is the world's largest tropical island and has fascinated naturalists for
centuries,. Home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet and to intact …

Abstract The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the
Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and …

The American tropics (the Neotropics) are the most species-rich realm on Earth, and for
centuries, scientists have attempted to understand the origins and evolution of their …

Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Over 30% of the 7,400 languages in the world will no longer be spoken by the end of the
century. So far, however, our understanding of whether language extinction may result in the …

In Brazil, the country with the highest plant species richness in the world, biodiverse
savannas and grasslands–ie, grassy ecosystems, which occupy 27% of the country–have …

It is time to synthesize the knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years
of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout …

Aim To understand how functional traits and evolutionary history shape the geographic
distribution of plant life on Earth, we need to integrate high‐quality and global‐scale …