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A Taxonomic and Biogeographic Reappraisal of the Genus Dicksonia (Dicksoniaceae) in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

A comparison of alpha and beta diversity patterns of ferns, bryophytes and macrolichens in tropical montane forests of southern Ecuador

scholarly article by Nicole Mandl et al published 18 April 2010 in Biodiversity and Conservation

A global comparative analysis of elevational species richness patterns of ferns

scientific article published in 2011

A human-induced downward-skewed elevational abundance distribution of pteridophytes in the Bolivian Andes

scientific article published on 15 January 2007

A humped latitudinal phylogenetic diversity pattern of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) in western Amazonia: assessing the influence of climate and geologic history

scholarly article by Stefan Abrahamczyk et al published November 2013 in Ecography

A new scaly tree fern (Cyathea: Cyatheaceae) from Colombia

scientific article

A review of ecological gradient research in the Tropics: identifying research gaps, future directions, and conservation priorities

scientific article published in 2017

Abundance changes of neophytes and native species indicate a thermophilisation and eutrophisation of the Swiss flora during the 20th century

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Alpha and beta diversity of plants and animals along a tropical land-use gradient

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An assessment of the genetic population structure of two species of Polylepis Ruiz & Pav. (Rosaceae) in the Chilean Andes

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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Assessing species saturation: conceptual and methodological challenges

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

scientific article

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

scientific article published in 2013

Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates

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Biogeography of the Gondwanan tree fern family Dicksoniaceae-A tale of vicariance, dispersal and extinction

scholarly article by Sarah Noben et al published 11 July 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Bryophyte cover on trees as proxy for air humidity in the tropics

scientific article published in 2012

Can joint carbon and biodiversity management in tropical agroforestry landscapes be optimized?

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Challenges and opportunities for the Bolivian Biodiversity Observation Network

Checklist of Bolivian Bromeliaceae with Notes On Species Distribution and Levels of Endemism ⬇️

scientific article published in 1999

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests.

scientific article

Conservation Value of Cacao Agroforestry Systems for Terrestrial Herbaceous Species in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Contrasting biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in phylogenetic and functional diversity.

scientific article

Cost-effectiveness of plant and animal biodiversity indicators in tropical forest and agroforest habitats

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Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography

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Diatom Species Richness in Swiss Springs Increases with Habitat Complexity and Elevation

scientific article published in 2020

Different Predictors Shape the Diversity Patterns of Epiphytic and Non-epiphytic Liverworts in Montane Forests of Uganda

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Diverse marsh plant communities are more consistently productive across a range of different environmental conditions through functional complementarity

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Diversity and community composition of euglossine bee assemblages (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in western Amazonia

scientific article published in 2011

Diversity patterns of ferns along elevational gradients in Andean tropical forests

article published in 2013

Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes

Do ridge habitats contribute to pteridophyte diversity in tropical montane forests? A case study from southeastern Ecuador

scientific article

Ecoregional distribution of potentially useful species of Araceae and Bromeliaceae as non-timber forest products in Bolivia

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Effects of Habitat Structure and Fragmentation on Diversity and Abundance of Primates in Tropical Deciduous Forests in Bolivia ⬇️

scientific article published on August 7, 2010

Effects of environmental heterogeneity on species diversity and composition of terrestrial bryophyte assemblages in tropical montane forests of southern Ecuador

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Elevational diversity of terrestrial rainforest herbs: when the whole is less than the sum of its parts

scientific article published in 2011

Elevational diversity patterns as an example for evolutionary and ecological dynamics in ferns and lycophytes ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 July 2016

End of an enigma: Aenigmopteris belongs in Tectaria (Tectariaceae: Polypodiopsida).

scientific article

Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

scientific article

EpIG‐DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Neotropics

First record of bat-pollination in the species-rich genus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae)

scientific article

Five new species of Asplenium L. (Aspleniaceae) from Bolivia ⬇️

scientific article published in 2006

Functional Diversity in Ferns Is Driven by Species Richness Rather Than by Environmental Constraints

scientific article published on 11 January 2021

Gene flow and genetic diversity in cultivated and wild cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Bolivia

scientific article

Geographical range size of tropical plants influences their response to anthropogenic activities

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Global fern and lycophyte richness explained: How regional and local factors shape plot richness

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

scientific article

Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

scientific article published in September 2022

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

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Historic and recent fragmentation coupled with altitude affect the genetic population structure of one of the world's highest tropical tree line species

scientific article published in 2011

Hummingbirds as drivers of plant speciation?

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Impact of mycorrhization on the abundance, growth and leaf nutrient status of ferns along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Influence of elevation and habitat disturbance on the functional diversity of ferns and lycophytes

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Influence of niche characteristics and forest type on fern species richness, abundance and plant size along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica

scientific article published in 2011

Interspecific variation in functional traits in relation to species climatic niche optima in Andean Polylepis (Rosaceae) tree species: evidence for climatic adaptations

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Island biogeography from regional to local scales: evidence for a spatially scaled echo pattern of fern diversity in the Southeast Asian archipelago

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Key2html: A Tool for the Quick Conversion of Dichotomous Keys into HTML Code

scientific article published on May 2007

Latitudinal patterns of species richness and range size of ferns along elevational gradients at the transition from tropics to subtropics

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Leucostegia amplissima, the Third Species of the Genus (Hypodematiaceae)

scholarly article published in 2021

Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Local vs. regional control on species richness: a new approach to test for competitive exclusion at the community level

scientific article published in 2006

Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae – Pteridophyta) in Bolivia, with Descriptions of Six New Species

scientific article

Microclimate determines community composition but not richness of epiphytic understory bryophytes of rainforest and cacao agroforests in Indonesia

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Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints

scientific article

Molecular ecology studies of species radiations: current research gaps, opportunities and challenges

scientific article published on 18 March 2017

Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review

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Mycorrhizal Associations in Ferns from Southern Ecuador

scholarly article by Marcus Lehnert et al published October 2009 in American Fern Journal

NEW RECORDS OF PTERIDOPHYTES FOR THE FLORA OF PERU

scholarly article in Sida, vol. 21 no. 4, 2005

Neo- and Paleopolyploidy contribute to the species diversity ofAsplenium-the most species-rich genus of ferns ⬇️

scientific article published in July 2017

New Guinea has the world's richest island flora

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

New Records of Pteridophytes from Bolivia

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New species and other nomenclatural changes for ferns from Bolivia

scientific article

Nineteen new species of Elaphoglossum (Elaphoglossaceae, Pteridophyta) from Bolivia

scientific article

Non-geographic collecting biases in herbarium specimens of Australian daisies (Asteraceae)

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Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest

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Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest

scientific article published in 2008

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic constraints vs. ecology in the nectar composition of Acanthaceae

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Phylogenetic diversity of ferns reveals different patterns of niche conservatism and habitat filtering between epiphytic and terrestrial assemblages

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Phylogenetic diversity, trait diversity and niches: species assembly of ferns along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Phylogeny of the Fern Genus Melpomene (Polypodiaceae) Inferred from Morphology and Chloroplast DNA Analysis

scholarly article by Marcus Lehnert et al published 1 March 2009 in Systematic Botany

Pleistocene climatic oscillations rather than recent human disturbance influence genetic diversity in one of the world's highest treeline species

scientific article

Pollen analogues are transported across greater distances in bee-pollinated than in hummingbird-pollinated species of<i>Justicia</i>(Acanthaceae)

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Polystichum faucicola M. Kessler & Lehnert (Dryopteridaceae) : a new fern species from Ecuador ⬇️

scientific article published in 2009

Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

scientific article

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. III. Selaginellaceae

scholarly article by Alan R. Smith & Michael Kessler published 16 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. IV. Isoëtaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae

scholarly article by Hanna Tuomisto et al published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XI. Gleicheniaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XIX. Plagiogyriaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XL. Polypodiaceae

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Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XVII. Loxsomataceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XVIII. Culcitaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XX. Cyatheaceae

scholarly article by Marcus Lehnert & Michael Kessler published 16 January 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXI. Dicksoniaceae

scholarly article by Marcus Lehnert & Michael Kessler published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXII. Metaxyaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXIX. Aspleniaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 16 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVIII. Cystopteridaceae

scholarly article by Alan R. Smith & Michael Kessler published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXI. Woodsiaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXII. Athyriaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 16 January 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXIII. Blechnaceae

scholarly article by Alan R. Smith & Michael Kessler published 16 January 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXIV. Didymochlaenaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 19 January 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXIX. Oleandraceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 16 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae

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Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVI. Lomariopsidaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 13 March 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVII. Nephrolepidaceae

scholarly article by Alan R. Smith & Michael Kessler published 16 January 2018 in Phytotaxa

Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVIII. Tectariaceae

scholarly article by Michael Kessler & Alan R. Smith published 19 January 2018 in Phytotaxa

Promiscuity in the Andes: Species Relationships in Polylepis (Rosaceae, Sanguisorbeae) Based on AFLP and Morphology

scientific article published in 2006

Pteridophyte species richness in the central Himalaya is limited by cold climate extremes at high elevations and rainfall seasonality at low elevations

scientific article published in 2022

Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Regional species richness determines local species turnover in ferns

scientific article published in 2020

Responses of terrestrial herb assemblages to weeding and fertilization in cacao agroforests in Indonesia

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Seven new species, 13 new combinations, and one new name of Polypodiaceae from Bolivia ⬇️

scientific article published in 2005

Sixteen new species of Thelypteris (Thelypteridaceae) from Bolivia

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Slowly but surely: gradual diversification and phenotypic evolution in the hyper-diverse tree fern family Cyatheaceae

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Species richness and endemism of plant and bird communities along two gradients of elevation, humidity and land use in the Bolivian Andes

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Species richness-productivity relationships of tropical terrestrial ferns at regional and local scales

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Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Taxonomic and Ecological Notes on the Alsophila hornei Complex (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida), with the Description of the New Species A. phlebodes from New Guinea

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Taxonomic revaluation of the Polylepis pauta and P. sericea (Rosaceae) from Ecuador

scientific article

Ten New Species and Two New Combinations of Blechnum (Blechnaceae, Pteridophyta) from Bolivia

scientific article

Terrestrial herb communities of tropical submontane and tropical montane forests in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

scholarly article published 2010

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts ⬇️

scientific article

The Relictual Fern Genus Loxsomopsis

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

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The influence of climatic seasonality on the diversity of different tropical pollinator groups

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The relationship between chlorophyllous spores and mycorrhizal associations in ferns: evidence from an evolutionary approach

scientific article published in December 2022

Three New Species and Two New Records of Greigia Regel (Bromeliaceae) from Bolivia ⬇️

scholarly article by Bettina Will et al published 2009 in Selbyana

Tradeoffs between income, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning during tropical rainforest conversion and agroforestry intensification

scientific article

Tree diversity in primary forest and different land use systems in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

scholarly article by Michael Kessler et al published March 2005 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Validation of a New Combination in the genus Alsophila (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida)

scientific article

Vertical distribution of epiphytic bryophytes in an Indonesian rainforest

scholarly article by S. Goda Sporn et al published 27 October 2009 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Vertical stratification of vascular epiphytes in submontane and montane forest of the Bolivian Andes: the importance of the understory

scientific article published in 2006

What drives elevational patterns of diversity? A test of geometric constraints, climate and species pool effects for pteridophytes on an elevational gradient in Costa Rica

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Why tree lines are lower on islands—Climatic and biogeographic effects hold the answer

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

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

A monograph of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae)

scientific article published in 2022

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