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 …

Background California is a world floristic biodiversity hotspot where the terms neo-and paleo-
endemism were first applied. Using spatial phylogenetics, it is now possible to evaluate …

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 …

Mexico is considered an exceptional biogeographic area with a varied endemic flora,
however spatial phylogenetic measures of biodiversity have not yet been estimated to …

Abstract The California Floristic Province (CFP) is an area of high biodiversity and
endemism corresponding roughly to the portion of western North America having a …

Floras serve as the basic reference of the plant biota of an area; they are critical tools that
serve botanists, conservationists, ecologists, foresters, gardeners, agronomists, researchers …

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 era of big biodiversity data has led to rapid, exciting advances in the theoretical and
applied biological, ecological and conservation sciences. While large genetic, geographic …

Current geographic patterns of biodiversity are a consequence of the evolutionary history of
the lineages that comprise them. This study was aimed at exploring how evolutionary …

Phylogenetic studies are revealing that major ecological niches are more conserved through
evolutionary history than expected, implying that adaptations to major climate changes have …