Documenting and exploring the patterns of diversity of life on Earth has always been a
central theme in biology. Species richness despite being the most commonly used measure …

Phylogenetic diversity (PD) captures the shared ancestry of species, and is increasingly
being recognized as a valuable conservation currency. Regionally, PD frequently covaries …

Aim To define biome‐scale hotspots of phylogenetic and functional mammalian biodiversity
(PD and FD, respectively) and compare them with 'classical'hotspots based on species …

Aim Whether the gradients of global diversity conform to equilibrium or non‐equilibrium
dynamics remains an unresolved question in ecology and evolution. Here, we evaluate four …

Mammals contribute to important ecosystem processes and services, but many mammalian
species are threatened with extinction. We compare how global patterns in three measures …

Patterns in the diversity of species begin to make sense when we reduce them to well-
known biological processes and take care to specify the scale of the pattern. Doing this …

As prehistoric cave paintings illustrate, our species has had an enduring appreciation of the
variety and abundance of life on Earth. Today, however, concern is focused on the pressure …

Vascular plants are often considered to be among the better known large groups of
organisms, but gaps in the available baseline data are extensive, and recent estimates of …

Within most terrestrial groups of animals, including mammals, species richness varies along
two axes of environmental variation, representing energy availability and plant productivity …

Biodiversity has been described as the 'biology of numbers and difference'(Gaston 1996).
Because species are different from one another, traditional metrics of biodiversity such as …