Craig Moritz is at the Dept of Zoology and Centre for Conservation Biology, The University of
Queensland, Qld 4072, Australia. w riting in the first issue of TREE, Ryder’brought the term ‘…

THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT that the rapidly expanding field of molecular biology has impacted
many scientific disciplines. Ever since GHF Nuttail's initial work in 1904, which used …

PLoS Biology| www. plosbiology. org 1530 described extant species within a given genus.
Accurate diagnosis depends on low intraspecific variation compared with that between …

Conservation planning has tended to focus more on pattern (representation) than process (persistence)
and, for the former, has emphasized species and ecosystem or community …

Aim We aim to propose validated, spatially explicit hypotheses for the late Quaternary
distribution of the Brazilian Atlantic forest, and thereby provide a framework for integrating …

Sequences (644-681 bp) from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained for 24
individuals representing the geographic range and morphological diversity of the polytypic …

Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution
and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occurrence …

Information from natural history collections (NHCs) about the diversity, taxonomy and historical
distributions of species worldwide is becoming increasingly available over the Internet. In …

We provide a century-scale view of small-mammal responses to global warming, without
confounding effects of land-use change, by repeating Grinnell's early–20th century survey …

Biodiversity hotspots, representing regions with high species endemism and conservation
threat, have been mapped globally. Yet, biodiversity distribution data from within hotspots are …