Can biodiversity hotspots protect more than tropical forest plants and vertebrates?

NE Stork, JC Habel - Journal of Biogeography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation International's biodiversity hotspots are areas of high vascular plant endemism
combined with high levels of habitat destruction and land use change. Although such …

[HTML][HTML] Endemism patterns in the Italian leaf beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)

M Biondi, F Urbani, P D'Alessandro - ZooKeys, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this contribution the results of a zoogeographical analysis, carried out on the 123 endemic
leaf beetle species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) occurring in Italy and its immediately …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogeography, colouration, and cryptic speciation across the Indo-Pacific in the sea urchin genus Echinothrix

SE Coppard, H Jessop, HA Lessios - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The sea urchins Echinothrix calamaris and Echinothrix diadema have sympatric distributions
throughout the Indo-Pacific. Diverse colour variation is reported in both species. To …

Towards a 'sea‐level sensitive'dynamic model: impact of island ontogeny and glacio‐eustasy on global patterns of marine island biogeography

SP Avila, C Melo, B Berning, N Sá, R Quartau… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A synthetic model is presented to enlarge the evolutionary framework of the
General Dynamic Model (GDM) and the Glacial Sensitive Model (GSM) of oceanic island …

Island biodiversity in peril: Anticipating a loss of mammals' functional diversity with future species extinctions

S Llorente‐Culebras, CP Carmona… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Islands are biodiversity hotspots that host unique assemblages. However, a substantial
proportion of island species are threatened and their long‐term survival is uncertain …

Comparative transcriptome resources of eleven Primulina species, a group of 'stone plants' from a biodiversity hot spot

B Ai, Y Gao, X Zhang, J Tao, M Kang… - Molecular ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The genus Primulina is an emerging model system in studying the drivers and mechanisms
of species diversification, for its high species richness and endemism, together with high …

Exploring the different facets of plant endemism in the South-Eastern Carpathians: a manifold approach for the determination of biotic elements, centres and areas of …

BI Hurdu, T Escalante, M Pușcaș… - Biological Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In the European Alpine System, the Carpathian Mountains are recognized as one of
the major centres of diversity and endemism. In the present study, we aimed to explain the …

[HTML][HTML] Rewilding South America: ten key questions

M Root-Bernstein, M Galetti, RJ Ladle - Perspectives in Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
There are various approaches to rewilding, corresponding to different socio-ecological and
policy contexts. Most South American ecosystems have experienced Pleistocene and …

Spatial relationship between climatic diversity and biodiversity conservation value

J Wang, R Wu, D He, F Yang, P Hu, S Lin… - Conservation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Capturing the full range of climatic diversity in a reserve network is expected to improve the
resilience of biodiversity to climate change. Therefore, a study on systematic conservation …

Photo‐sharing platforms key for characterising niche and distribution in poorly studied taxa

A Jiménez‐Valverde, P Peña‐Aguilera… - Insect Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The continuing advancement of new technologies is making available novel sources of
occurrence data, such as photo‐sharing platforms. Using three Iberian Argiope spider …