Narrowing the gap between rich and poor
The species richness of a given clade is explained in simple terms by rate of diversification and clade age, but what other factors might play a role?
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Assessing completeness of plant inventories for Africa
Reviewing the sampling of plants in Africa in the past 300 years.
Assessing species-level gaps and biases in occurrence data
Do species attributes, range geometry or socio-economic factors impact variation in species occurrence information?
Predicting zoonotic spillovers under future environmental stressors
How will global change impact emergence and spread of human infectious diseases?
Identifying data gaps through visualization
This tool helps researchers identify potential gaps in biodiversity data by visualizing richness and temporal distribution.
Cleaning up big data
This study discusses methods of data cleaning and assesses the impact of strict cleaning schemes on performance of species distribution models.
Not all pollen are created equal
Are bumblebee populations able to change their diet with shifting host plant distributions and how might that affect colony development?
Tree fern ecology in New Zealand
Summarizing 100 years of published and unpublished data on the ecology and biogeography of tree ferns in New Zealand.
Putting insects on the map
Are the environmental causes for variation in species richness the same across all taxa?
Predicting future discoveries of lizards
Based on previous discoveries, can you make predictions about the traits of lizards yet to be described?