The Southwest Australian Floristic Region: Evolution and Conservation of a Global Hot Spot of Biodiversity

By S. Hopper, Pari Gioia. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Analysis of factors implicated in the recent decline of Australia's mammal fauna (2007, background): “Not only are most of these heaths characterized by low productivity relative to their rainfall regime because they occur on nutrient-poor soils (Pate, 1994; Hopper & Gioia, 2004), they have also been extensively cleared by Europeans, and the remnants are burnt frequently (Bell et al., 1984).”
Biogeography of the grasses (Poaceae): a phylogenetic approach to reveal evolutionary history in geographical space and geological time (2010, background): “…is increasing evidence of multiple dispersals into Australia throughout the Cenozoic in many unrelated plant clades and from many directions (McLoughlin, 2001; Hopper & Gioia, 2004), but the earliest record of grasses from Australia is in a middle Eocene pollen flora (Frakes & Vickers-Rich, 1991).”
Projecting climate change impacts on species distributions in megadiverse South African Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Regions: Opportunities and challenges (2009, background): “…strategies to be developed, especially in jurisdictions such as the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) of South Africa and the South West Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR; sensu Hopper & Gioia 2004), which are internationally recognized for their high plant species diversity (Myers et al. 2000).”
Reconciling approaches to biogeographical regionalization: a systematic and generic framework examined with a case study of the Australian continent (2007, background): “For example, Hopper & Gioia (2004) discussed the high level of localized endemism among the flora of south-western Australia resulting from that region’s long period of isolation and environmental stability.”
Phytophthora cinnamomi invasion, a major threatening process to conservation of flora diversity in the South-west Botanical Province of Western Australia (2007, background): “Threatened Ecological Communities infested with the pathogen incorporate a range of vegetation types and mainly occur in hot spots of flora diversity (Hopper and Gioia 2004) on the Swan Coastal Plain and Esperance Plains bioregions.”
Maximizing return on investment in conservation (2007, background): “Mediterranean habitats are rich in species, highly degraded throughout much of the world, and a priority for many conservation organizations (Cowling et al., 1996; Myers et al., 2000; Hopper and Gioia, 2004).”
Plant-microbe-soil interactions in the rhizosphere: an evolutionary perspective (2009, background): “We know that some of the non-mycorrhizal families with root clusters, e.g., Proteaceae, are as old as early- to mid-Tertiary (Hopper and Gioia 2004), but there is no information about the time these lineages became non-mycorrhizal.”
Threats and biodiversity in the mediterranean biome (2009, background): “As a result, only 2–3% of the native vegetation that contains high numbers of rare and endangered plant species remains (Hobbs, 1993; Hopper & Gioia, 2004).”
Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient‐acquisition strategies along a 2‐million‐year dune chronosequence (2014, background): “…Australia is unique in that both its climate and landforms have been relatively stable over extremely long periods, and it hosts a very species-rich and mostly endemic flora that has persisted and evolved on ancient, strongly weathered, P-impoverished soils (Pate & Beard 1984; Hopper & Gioia 2004).”