This paper and this issue attempt to address how, when and why the phenomenal c.
100,000 species of seed plants in tropical America (the Neotropics) arose. It is increasingly …

A fundamental premise of this review is that distinctive phylogenetic and biogeographic
patterns in clades endemic to different major biomes illuminate the evolutionary process. In …

Abstract The Caatinga Domain (CD) in northeastern Brazil harbors the largest and most
continuous expanse of the seasonally dry tropical forest and woodland biome (SDTFW) in …

Plant checklists constitute the fundamental knowledge on which further hypotheses of
ecology, evolution, and biodiversity conservation are built. Here, we compiled a …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The study documents current medicinal plant
knowledge and use in two Andean communities and depicts the dynamic nature of …

Abstract Aim The tropical Andes are a world biodiversity hotspot. With diverse biomes and
dramatic, geologically recent mountain uplift, they offer a system to study the relative …

The Brazilian Caatinga is considered the richest nucleus of the Seasonally Dry Tropical
Forests (SDTF) in the Neotropics, also exhibiting high levels of endemism, but the timing of …

Abstract Background South America is one of the most species diverse continents in the
world. Within South America diversity is not distributed evenly at both local and continental …

Based on a review of literature related to the biological diversity of the inter-Andean
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests of the Marañón valley (ISDTFM), located in the regions of …

Incongruence between morphology and molecules, ie, genetic differentiation of lineages
that are morphologically identical, or morphological variation among accessions sharing …