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 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.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  BMC Biology

• Publication date

  2017-03-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s12915-017-0358-6PMID 28264673PMCID 5339971
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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