Magurran Anne E
Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK.
BMC Biol. 2017 Mar 7;15(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s12915-017-0358-6.
The tropics are the repository of much of the world's biodiversity, yet are undersampled relative to temperate regions. To help fill this knowledge gap, a paper in BMC Biology explores diversity patterns in tropical African plants, as revealed by the RAINBIO database. The paper documents spatial variation in diversity and data coverage, but also highlights the challenges faced in quantifying diversity patterns using data collated from a range of sources including herbaria.See research article: http://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0356-8 .
热带地区是世界上大部分生物多样性的储存库，但相对于温带地区而言，其采样不足。为了填补这一知识空白，《BMC生物学》上的一篇论文探讨了RAINBIO数据库所揭示的热带非洲植物的多样性模式。该论文记录了多样性和数据覆盖范围的空间变化，但也强调了使用从包括植物标本馆在内的一系列来源整理的数据来量化多样性模式时所面临的挑战。见研究文章：http://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0356-8 。
