Island floras are generally characterized by disharmony due to uneven representations of
plant groups. This has usually been explained by the unequal capacity of plants to disperse …

Abstract Background New Caledonia is renowned as one of the world's most significant
biodiversity hotpots. The nutrient-deficiency and cations imbalances of ultramafic soils …

The New Caledonian flora is as a whole rich and unusual, but floral diversity varies greatly
between different plant associations and is much affected by edaphic substrates, rainfall and …

Of 75 regions, some continental and others insular, the diversity as expressed in the number
of Phanerogam genera is compared. As could be expected it is found that richness in both …

The vegetation on a wet mountain slope on Haleakala (an oceanic island) is compared with
that on Kinabalu (a continental island) to examine relationships between regional floristic …

New Caledonia is known for the diversity of its geological substrates, which have shaped its
highly original and diverse flora. Here, the effect of the soil on the vegetation is described for …

The hypothesis that some non-forest sclerophyll communities may show greater species-
diversity than many tropical rain forests is tested by comparing species/area data for Cape …

During the past three decades, ecologists have developed a body of theory that attempts to
explain global patterns of species diversity in terms of interactions that limit the local …

Few would argue that one of the important questions in evolutionary biology is how
morphologically distinguishable groups, commonly recognized as species, evolve or …

The pattern of plant species distribution, the richness of species composition, the distribution
of resources among species and the manner of change in these parameters across …