▪ Abstract The latitudinal gradient of decreasing richness from tropical to extratropical areas
is ecology's longest recognized pattern. Nonetheless, notable exceptions to the general …

Since China's economic reform in the late 1970s, Shanghai, the country's largest and most
modern city, has experienced rapid expansion and urbanization. Here, we explore its land …

China, one of the world's “megabiodiversity countries”, is home to more than 30 000
vascular plant and 6300 vertebrate species. Over thousands of years, however, cultivation …

Species turnover, or beta diversity, has been predicted to decrease with increasing latitude,
but few studies have tested this relationship. Here, we examined the beta diversity–latitude …

Potential changes in tree species richness and forest community types were evaluated for
the eastern United States according to five scenarios of future climate change resulting from …

Leaf‐level determinants of species environmental stress tolerance are still poorly
understood. Here, we explored dependencies of species shade (Tshade) and drought …

Using an exhaustive data compilation, Iberian vascular plant species richness in 50 times 50
UTM grid cells was regressed against 24 explanatory variables (spatial, geographical …

North America is a large continent with extensive climatic, geological, soil, and biological
diversity. As biota faces threat from habitat destruction and climate change, making a …

Caves are important bat roosts worldwide that are used as shelters, maternity roosts, and to
help in thermoregulation. Bat abundances, species richness, and association patterns inside …

Numbers of taxa at the level of order, family, genus, and species were tabulated for 12
subclass-level taxonomic groups of vascular plants in the floras of China and the United …