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A global evaluation of metabolic theory as an explanation for terrestrial species richness gradients.

scientific article published in August 2007

A new year with a new leadership team at GEB - or how to guarantee your paper gets into GEB

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A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire

scientific article published on 15 June 2022

A view from above: Unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAV s) provide a new tool for assessing liana infestation in tropical forest canopies

article by Catherine E. Waite et al published 8 January 2019 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Cusuco National Park, Honduras

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Assessing the Potential Replacement of Laurel Forest by a Novel Ecosystem in the Steep Terrain of an Oceanic Island

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades

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Challenges and opportunities for biogeography—What can we still learn from von Humboldt?

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands

scientific article published on 12 April 2022

Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

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Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Conservation on the blink: Deficient technical reports threaten conservation in the Natura 2000 network

Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Diversification in evolutionary arenas-Assessment and synthesis

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Does daily climate variation have an effect on species’ elevational range size?

Effect of Canal Bank Engineering Disturbance on Plant Communities: Analysis of Taxonomic and Functional Beta Diversity

scientific article published in 2023

Energy, Water, and Broad-Scale Geographic Patterns of Species Richness

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Extinction risk and conservation gaps for Aloe (Asphodelaceae) in the Horn of Africa

scientific article

GEB goes double blind

scientific article published in 2017

GLOBAL MODELS FOR PREDICTING WOODY PLANT RICHNESS FROM CLIMATE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION

article by Richard Field et al published September 2005 in Ecology

Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: the role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance

scientific article published in 2022

Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants

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Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

scientific article published in September 2022

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non‐endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island

scientific article published on 08 February 2022

How to go extinct: lessons from the lost plants of Krakatau

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Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma

scientific article published on 29 November 2021

Integrating GIScience and Crop Science datasets: a study involving genetic, geographic and environmental data

Integrating GIScience and Crop Science datasets: a study involving genetic, geographic and environmental data

Integrating GIScience and Crop Science datasets: a study involving genetic, geographic and environmental data

Integrating GIScience and Crop Science datasets: a study involving genetic, geographic and environmental data

Integrating GIScience and Crop Science datasets: a study involving genetic, geographic and environmental data

Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics

scientific article published in 2023

Making (remote) sense of lianas

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

Metabolic theory and diversity gradients: where do we go from here?

scientific article published in August 2007

Modelling native and alien vascular plant species richness: At which scales is geodiversity most relevant?

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Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity

scientific article published on 28 October 2018

No empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that daily climate variation has an effect on species’ elevational range size: Reply to Chan et al

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Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect

scientific article

Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness for angiosperm trees in forest communities in China

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Predictions and tests of climate-based hypotheses of broad-scale variation in taxonomic richness

scientific article published in 2004

Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing

Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth

scientific article published on 24 September 2023

Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases

scientific article published on 04 May 2021

Scrubbing Up: Multi-Scale Investigation of Woody Encroachment in a Southern African Savannah

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Spatial patterns of woody plant and bird diversity: functional relationships or environmental effects?

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Spatial relationship between biodiversity and geodiversity across a gradient of land-use intensity in high-latitude landscapes

scientific article published in 2017

Spatial species-richness gradients across scales: a meta-analysis

scientific article

The Tree Biodiversity Network (BIOTREE-NET): prospects for biodiversity research and conservation in the Neotropics

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The role of refuges in biological invasions: A systematic review

scientific article published in 2023

Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

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Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Tree species richness modelling: an approach of global applicability?

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Uniqueness of Protected Areas for Conservation Strategies in the European Union.

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Using citizen science data for conservation planning: Methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling

Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages

scientific article published on 8 September 2023

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

scientific article published on 21 June 2021