During the Pleistocene, long-term trends in global climate were controlled by orbital cycles
leading to high amplitude glacial-interglacial variability. The history of Amazonian vegetation …

Neotropical Biogeography: Regionalization and Evolution presents the most comprehensive
single-source treatment of the Neotropical region derived from evolutionary biogeographic …

The high tropical Andes host one of the richest alpine floras of the world, with exceptionally
high levels of endemism and turnover rates. Yet, little is known about the patterns and …

Some of the largest impacts of climate change are expected in the environmentally
heterogeneous and species rich high mountain ecosystems. Among those, the Neotropical …

Tropical forests are disappearing at unprecedented rates, but the drivers behind this
transformation are not always clear. This limits the decision-making processes and the …

Aim Online species distribution data, global or regional, are increasingly used in biodiversity
studies although data limitations have been reported. We explore, for the two major …

Key features: The first reference book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the
biogreography of the Andean region Includes lists of the synonyms for each area and …

We identified biogeographical districts in the Páramo biogeographic province, in the north-
western Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, including the Sierra Nevada de Santa …

Páramos are high-elevation grassland-dominated ecosystems of the northern Andes that
harbour large numbers of small-ranged and endemic species and provide important …

Background The páramo is a high-elevation biogeographical province in the northern
Andes, known for its great biodiversity and ecosystem services. Because there have been …