Global Centers of Vascular Plant Diversity

By W. Barthlott, J. Mutke, Daud M. Rafiqpoor, Gerold Kier, H. Kreft. 2005

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A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions (2009, background): “The high values of tropical montane areas might be partly because of steep elevational and climatic gradients resulting in high species turnover (41, 46, 47).”
Patterns of vascular plant diversity at continental to global scales (2007, background): “Only five centres surpass 5,000 species per 10,000 km2 (Costa Rica-Chocó, Tropical Eastern Andes, Atlantic Brazil, Northern Borneo, New Guinea) (BARTHLOTT et al. 1996; BARTHLOTT et al. 1999; BARTHLOTT et al. 2005).”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “Yet Eurasian grasslands do not show up on the global map of vascular plant diversity (Barthlott et al., 2005) because this map considers biodiversity patterns at 10,000-km2 resolution only.”
Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? (2019, background): “Likewise, the mountainous Atlantic Forest region of South America and the mountains of Northern Borneo and Costa Rica have been identified as mega-diverse for plants (18, 22).”
Phylogeography of a widespread Asian subtropical tree: genetic east–west differentiation and climate envelope modelling suggest multiple glacial refugia (2014, background): “The Asian subtropics are a global biodiversity hotspot (Barthlott et al., 2005) and are considered to be one of the most important refugia for lineages that evolved prior to the late Pliocene and Pleistocene glaciations (Axelrod et al., 1996).”
What ' s on the horizon for macroecology? (2012, methodology): “We have progressed considerably in meeting the methodological challenges in macroecology that were pointed out 15 yr ago by Blackburn and Gaston (1998). While early analyses, for example, were based on simple tools such as ordinary least square regressions, it has now become standard to account for ”
Phylogenetic insights into Andean plant diversification (2014, background): “The uplift of the Andes is considered as one of the most important events in the biogeographical history of the Neotropical biota (Hoorn et al., 2010) and the tropical Andes are one of the most diverse areas on earth in terms of vascular plant species (Barthlott et al., 2005).”