Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Aim To test whether it is possible to establish a common biogeographical regionalization for
plants and vertebrates in sub‐Saharan Africa (the Afrotropical Region), using objective …

There is much evidence to support past contact between the Atlantic and the Amazon forests
through the South American dry vegetation diagonal, but the spatiotemporal dynamics of this …

Sub-Saharan Africa includes some 45,000 plant species. The spatial patterns of this
diversity have been well explored. We can group the species into a set of biogeographical …

Background Understanding how biodiversity is shaped through time is a fundamental
question in biology. Even though tropical rain forests (TRF) represent the most diverse …

Background Large-scale plant diversity inventories are critical to develop informed
conservation strategies. However, the workload required for classic taxonomic surveys …

Current evidence suggests that many of the major events in hominin evolution occurred in
East Africa. Hence, over the past two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

Aim Rain forest‐restricted plant families show disjunct distributions between the three major
tropical regions: South America, Africa and Asia. Explaining these disjunctions has become …