Climate refugia, locations where taxa survive periods of regionally adverse climate, are
thought to be critical for maintaining biodiversity through the glacial–interglacial climate …

The S outh A merican continent is composed of several biogeographical regions harbouring
the highest biodiversity on the globe, encompassing five of the world's biodiversity 'hot …

Landscape dynamics are widely thought to govern the tempo and mode of continental
radiations, yet the effects of river network rearrangements on dispersal and lineage …

Species distribution modelling (SDM) associates georeferenced observations of a biotic
response variable–typically species occurrence or abundance–with multiple environmental …

The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been
controversial since the 19th century. Support for the influence of period-specific changes on …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Aim The aim was to examine the links between past biome stability, vegetation dynamics
and biodiversity patterns. Location South America. Time period Last 30,000 years. Major …

Abstract The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil harbors outstanding species richness and levels of
endemism, representing one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Yet, a lot is still …

The rapid global decline of amphibian population is alarming because many occur for
apparently unknown or enigmatic reasons, even inside protected areas (PAs). Some studies …

We propose a new approach for identification of areas of endemism, the Geographical
Interpolation of Endemism (GIE), based on kernel spatial interpolation. This method differs …