Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge

By Gerold Kier, J. Mutke, E. Dinerstein, Taylor H. Ricketts, Wolfgang Küper, H. Kreft, W. Barthlott. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Visualizing and interacting with large-volume biodiversity data using client-server web-mapping applications: The design and implementation of antmaps.org (2016, background): “, 2015), the consolidation of large biodiversity datasets in vertebrates and plants has already led to insights into the global ecology and evolution of biodiversity (Schipper et al., 2008; Orme et al., 2005; Kier et al., 2005; Kreft and Jetz, 2007; Buckley and Jetz, 2007), as well as served as a cr”
Challenging Wallacean and Linnean shortfalls: knowledge gradients and conservation planning in a biodiversity hotspot (2006, background): “The paucity of data in a large area such as the Cerrado Biome, however, will be not solved in the near future (Kier et al., 2005).”
The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America (2012, background): “Recent studies have produced remarkably detailed maps depicting how plant species richness varies across the earth (Kier et al., 2005; Mutke & Barthlott, 2005), fostering more thorough tests of the numerous hypotheses put forward to explain the origin and maintenance of species diversity (e.g.…”
Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information. (2016, background): “Identifying botanical information gaps has a long history (Jäger 1976; Prance 1977; Kier et al. 2005), while most recent analyses emphasized effects on specific applications (Feeley & Silman 2011; Yang et al.”
A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions (2009, background): “It remains a great challenge that in most parts of the world, distribution data are only available for parts of the flora (45).”
Biomes and bioregions of Southern Africa (2006, background): “Ecoregions, through their availability, have been widely applied for a diversity of purposes (e.g. for units for which plant species diversity could be determined; Kier et al. 2005).”
Patterns of plant invasions in China: Taxonomic, biogeographic, climatic approaches and anthropogenic effects (2010, background): “Furthermore, the decrease in sizes of the global species pool from the tropics to the Arctic/Antarctic may indicate the decreasing number of species available for introduction (Barthlott et al. 1996; Kier et al. 2005).”
The online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota). (2010, methodology): “This was done using the global map of vascular plants from Kier et al. (2005), which shows that plant species richness is negatively correlated with latitude, as a proxy.”
Allopatric speciation with little niche divergence is common among alpine Primulaceae (2016, background): “Mountains harbour more biodiversity than expected based on the area they occupy (K€orner, 2004) and plants are no exception to this rule (Kier et al., 2005).”
Which function describes the species–area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation (2009, methodology): “SARs have also been used in comparing species-richness values of different areas, in extrapolating species richness (e.g. Colwell & Coddington, 1994; He & Legendre, 1996; Plotkin et al., 2000), and in producing biodiversity maps (e.g. Kier et al., 2005).”
Conservation opportunities across the world's anthromes (2014, result): “For example, Kier et al. (2005) mapped vascular plant species richness by ecoregion and compared these results with published literature on global priorities for plant conservation.”
The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know? (2009, background): “29 An independent global assessment reports the highest estimate of regional plant species richness occurs in the Borneo lowlands (Kier et al. 2005).”