Plant community diversity will decline more than increase under climatic warming

S Harrison - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Regions and localities may lose many species to extinction under rapid climate change and
may gain other species that colonize from nearby warmer environments. Here, it is argued …

Linking plant functional ecology to island biogeography

G Ottaviani, G Keppel, L Götzenberger, S Harrison… - Trends in Plant …, 2020 - cell.com
The study of insular systems has a long history in ecology and biogeography. Island plants
often differ remarkably from their noninsular counterparts, constituting excellent models for …

The edaphic control of plant diversity

CM Hulshof, MJ Spasojevic - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background The central thesis of plant ecology is that climate determines the global
distribution of vegetation. Within a vegetation type, however, finer‐scale environmental …

Outstanding plant endemism levels strongly support the recognition of campo rupestre provinces in mountaintops of eastern South America

M Colli‐Silva, TNC Vasconcelos… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Brazilian campo rupestre is a vegetation associated to ancient
mountaintops in eastern South America, spread mainly over disjunct areas of the Espinhaço …

Plant endemism centres and biodiversity hotspots in Greece

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, A Kallimanis… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

Managing climate-change refugia to prevent extinctions

G Keppel, D Stralberg, TL Morelli, Z Bátori - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - cell.com
Earth is facing simultaneous biodiversity and climate crises. Climate-change refugia–areas
that are relatively buffered from climate change–can help address both of these problems by …

Environmental heterogeneity dynamics drive plant diversity on oceanic islands

MP Barajas‐Barbosa, P Weigelt… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The General Dynamic Model (GDM) links island biogeographical processes to
island geological history. A key premise of the GDM implies that environmental factors …

An escape-to-radiate model for explaining the high plant diversity and endemism in campos rupestres

A Rapini, C Bitencourt, F Luebert… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
With extraordinary levels of plant diversity and endemism, the Brazilian campos rupestres
across the Espinhaço Range have a species/area ratio 40 times higher than the lowland …

Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla

Z Bátori, A Vojtkó, IE Maák, G Lőrinczi, T Farkas… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Fine-scale topographic complexity creates important microclimates that can facilitate species
to grow outside their main distributional range and increase biodiversity locally. Enclosed …

Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities

BR Shipley, JL McGuire - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Endemic species represent an important component of biodiversity. They are functionally
and evolutionarily distinct from cosmopolitan species, and are under greater threat of …