Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Contents Summary 708 I. Introduction 708 II. Fossils and phylogenies: learning from our past
708 III. Threatened species and Red Lists 710 IV. The geography of threat 710 V. The …

Aim Biodiversity hotspots are regions with the highest species richness, and the most
threatened species. Previous studies have shown that the extinction risk may be more …

Aim A positive association between environmental niche breadth and geographic range size
across species (RS‐NB association) is considered a major macroecological pattern and a …

Species may exhibit similar traits via different mechanisms: environmental filtering and local
adaptation (geography) and shared evolutionary history (phylogeny) can each contribute to …

Aim Global interspecific body size distributions have been suggested to be shaped by
selection pressures arising from biotic and abiotic factors such as temperature, predation …

Comparative models used to predict species threat status can help identify the diagnostic
features of species at risk. Such models often combine variables measured at the species …

Island biogeography theory provides key insights into biodiversity patterns across islands
species–area relationships and conservation. However, classical island biogeography …

Frost tolerance has evolved many times independently across flowering plants. However,
conservation of several frost tolerance mechanisms among distant relatives suggests that …

With the potential extinction of threatened species, communities and species pools could
become functionally and phylogenetically impoverished, especially if threatened species …