Species occurrence records from online databases are an indispensable resource in
ecological, biogeographical and palaeontological research. However, issues with data quality, …

The American tropics (the Neotropics) are the most species-rich realm on Earth, and for
centuries, scientists have attempted to understand the origins and evolution of their biodiversity. …

Understanding the patterns and processes underlying the uneven distribution of biodiversity
across space constitutes a major scientific challenge in systematic biology and …

Understanding the processes that have generated the latitudinal biodiversity gradient and the
continental differences in tropical biodiversity remains a major goal of evolutionary biology…

Rapidly growing biological data—including molecular sequences and fossils—hold an
unprecedented potential to reveal how evolutionary processes generate and maintain biodiversity…

Climate change is rapidly warming high latitude and high elevation regions influencing
plant community composition. Changes in vegetation composition have motivated the …

Global warming leads to drastic changes in the diversity and structure of Arctic plant
communities. Studies of functional diversity within the Arctic tundra biome have improved our …

Recent molecular studies have identified substantial fungal diversity in indoor environments.
Fungi and fungal particles have been linked to a range of potentially unwanted effects in …

 Abstract The international DNA sequence databases abound in fungal sequences not annotated
beyond the kingdom level, typically bearing names such as “uncultured fungus”. These …

Temperatures over the Arctic region are increasing at three times the rate of the global average.
Consequently, Arctic vegetation is changing and trees are encroaching into the tundra. …