The Neotropics are the most species-rich area of the planet. Understanding the origin and
maintenance of this diversity is an important goal of ecology and evolutionary biology …

Abstract The Neotropical region (tropical America) is the most species rich region on Earth.
Several causes have been proposed to explain this extraordinary biodiversity, which may be …

The exceptional levels of biodiversity found today in the American tropics are the outcome of
tens of millions of years of evolution, shaped by the tumultuous geological history of the …

Despite advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote–sensing technology
and software, to date most systematists and other botanists working on the Neotropical flora …

North America is a large continent with extensive climatic, geological, soil, and biological
diversity. As biota faces threat from habitat destruction and climate change, making a …

Traditionally, the generation and use of biodiversity data and their associated specimen
objects have been primarily the purview of individuals and small research groups. While …

I had just returned from the 1997 meetings of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists
(ASPT) in Montreal when I read Kruckeberg's (1997) commentary on the state of botanical …

Monographs provide fundamental data critical to making informed conservation decisions.
Do modern monographs, however, contribute to our knowledge of the diversity of the …

The value of natural history collections for conservation science research is increasingly
recognized, despite their well‐documented limitations in terms of taxonomic, geographic …

Systematic methods involving the use of DNA data and genealogical analysis have been
widely applied to higher-level phylogenetic questions in plants but much less commonly to …