The important challenge of quantifying tropical diversity

The tropics are the repository of much of the world’s biodiversity, yet are undersampled relative to temperate regions. To help fill this knowledge gap, a paper in BMC Biology explores diversity patterns in tropical African plants, as revealed by the RAINBIO database. The paper documents spatial var...

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Autor principal: Magurran, Anne E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28264673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0358-6
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description The tropics are the repository of much of the world’s biodiversity, yet are undersampled relative to temperate regions. To help fill this knowledge gap, a paper in BMC Biology explores diversity patterns in tropical African plants, as revealed by the RAINBIO database. The paper documents spatial variation in diversity and data coverage, but also highlights the challenges faced in quantifying diversity patterns using data collated from a range of sources including herbaria. See research article: http://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0356-8.
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spelling pubmed-53399712017-03-10 The important challenge of quantifying tropical diversity Magurran, Anne E. BMC Biol Commentary The tropics are the repository of much of the world’s biodiversity, yet are undersampled relative to temperate regions. To help fill this knowledge gap, a paper in BMC Biology explores diversity patterns in tropical African plants, as revealed by the RAINBIO database. The paper documents spatial variation in diversity and data coverage, but also highlights the challenges faced in quantifying diversity patterns using data collated from a range of sources including herbaria. See research article: http://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0356-8. BioMed Central 2017-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5339971/ /pubmed/28264673 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0358-6 Text en © Magurran 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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