Global patterns of vascular plant species richness, endemic richness and endemicity: a new approach to identify hotspots and cold spots (original) (raw)

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The study presents a novel framework for understanding vascular plant endemicity and its spatial variation across different biomes. By analyzing a comprehensive dataset of area, native species richness, and endemic species richness, it was found that power functions effectively model the relationships between the aforementioned parameters. Notably, differences in species-area relationships were observed between islands and mainland areas, with implications for identifying geographic entities as hotspots or cold spots of plant endemism.