Assessing the distribution of geographically restricted and evolutionarily unique species and
their underlying drivers is key to understanding biogeographical processes and critical for …

Plants sustain human life. Understanding geographic patterns of the diversity of species
used by people is thus essential for the sustainable management of plant resources. Here …

Species diversity of angiosperms (flowering plants) varies greatly among regions.
Geographic patterns of variation in species diversity are shaped by the interplay of …

Plant life and growth forms (shortened to 'plant forms') represent key functional strategies of
plants in relation to their environment and provide important insights into the ecological …

Advancing knowledge of biodiversity requires global open‐access databases. Having large‐
scale information on plant distributions, functional traits and evolutionary history will enable …

More than 15% of all vascular plant species may remain scientifically undescribed, and
many of the> 350 000 described species have no or few geographic records documenting …

How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown,
hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high …

Grazing has been associated with contrasting effects on soil carbon stocks at local scales,
but accurate global assessments of its net impact are lacking. Here we conducted a meta …

The metric called phylogenetic diversity (PD) has been employed over the last 30 years to
add an evolutionary dimension to the exploration of biodiversity. However, the application of …

For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity in South
America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 and 2.5 cm …