Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance
of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across …

Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for
understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems …

Compilation of vegetation databases has contributed significantly to the advancement of
vegetation science all over the world. Yet, methodological problems result from the use of …

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether
these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain …

The stacking of species‐distribution models (S‐SDM s) is receiving attention by
conservation researchers because this approach is capable of simultaneously predicting …

Here we report that prioritizing sites in order of rarity-weighted richness (RWR) is a simple,
reliable way to identify sites that represent all species in the fewest number of sites …

Global biodiversity is negatively affected by anthropogenic climate change. As species
distributions shift due to increasing temperatures and precipitation fluctuations, many …

The statistical framework of rarefaction curves and asymptotic estimators allows for an
effective standardization of biodiversity measures. However, most statistical analyses still …

Although trees have high economic, cultural and ecological value, increasing numbers of
species are potentially at risk of extinction because of forest loss and degradation as a result …

Abstract The third largest Biodiversity Hotspot of the world, Mesoamerican forests are
declining due to human pressures. Based on species distribution models calibrated for 1224 …