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Effects of mangrove cover on coastal erosion during a hurricane in Texas, USA

(2021) Steven C. Pennings et al.   ECOLOGY

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(2021) Matheus L. de Araujo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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The ghosts of forests past and future: deforestation and botanical sampling in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) J. Stropp et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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(2020) André Luís de Gasper et al.   Acta Botanica Brasilica

The persistent multi-dimensional biases of biodiversity digital accessible knowledge of birds in China

(2020) Xiongwei Huang et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Evaluating shortfalls and spatial accuracy of biodiversity documentation in the Atlantic Forest, the most diverse and threatened Brazilian phytogeographic domain

(2020) Matheus Colli‐Silva et al.   TAXON

Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation

(2020) Gabriel Cardoso Carrero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data

(2020) Roeland Kindt   Applications in Plant Sciences

Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

(2019) Rafael O. Wüest et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Survey completeness of a global citizen‐science database of bird occurrence

(2019) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The Uses of Herbaria in Botanical Research. A Review Based on Evidence From Argentina

(2019) Alicia López et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Bird’s nest fern epiphytes facilitate herpetofaunal arboreality and climate refuge in two paleotropic canopies

(2019) Christa M. Seidl et al.   OECOLOGIA

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

(2018) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   SCIENCE

Science and democracy must orientate Brazil's path to sustainability

(2018) Ricardo Dobrovolski et al.   Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Comparing implementations of global and local indicators of spatial association

(2018) Roger S. Bivand et al.   TEST

Incomplete species lists derived from global and regional specimen-record databases affect macroecological analyses: A case study on the vascular plants of China

(2018) Hong Qian et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The history and impact of digitization and digital data mobilization on biodiversity research

(2018) Gil Nelson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

(2017) Domingos Cardoso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeography of Amazon birds: rivers limit species composition, but not areas of endemism

(2017) Ubirajara Oliveira et al.   Scientific Reports

The strong influence of collection bias on biodiversity knowledge shortfalls of Brazilian terrestrial biodiversity

(2016) Ubirajara Oliveira et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Filling in the GAPS: evaluating completeness and coverage of open-access biodiversity databases in the United States

(2016) Matthew J. Troia et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity data obsolescence and land uses changes

(2016) Nora Escribano et al.   PeerJ

A comprehensive checklist of vascular epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest reveals outstanding endemic rates

(2016) Leandro Freitas et al.   PhytoKeys

Total Historical Land-Use Change in Eastern Bolivia: Who, Where, When, and How Much?

(2016) Timothy J. Killeen et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?

(2015) Carla Maldonado et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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(2015) Carsten Meyer et al.   Nature Communications

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(2015) Kristine Engemann et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Importance of Biodiversity E-infrastructures for Megadiverse Countries

(2015) Dora A. L. Canhos et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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(2014) Daniel E. Stanton et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of floristic collections in China

(2014) Wenjing Yang et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bromeliad Selection by Two Salamander Species in a Harsh Environment

(2014) Gustavo Ruano-Fajardo et al.   PLoS One

Completeness of digital accessible knowledge of the plants of Brazil and priorities for survey and inventory

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Mapping the biodiversity of tropical insects: species richness and inventory completeness of African sphingid moths

(2013) Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness-environment models

(2013) Wenjing Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Four barriers to the global understanding of biodiversity conservation: wealth, language, geographical location and security

(2013) T. Amano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A model of botanical collectors' behavior in the field: Never the same species twice

(2010) H. t. Steege et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Cross-scale variation in species richness-environment associations

(2010) Jonathan Belmaker et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY