Climate change crisis for rainforests ( Quirin Schiermeier ,2009, Nature, doi:10.1038/news.2009.136 ) Drought could turn carbon sinks into sources. The tropical forests of South America, Africa and Asia take up and release huge amounts of carbon each year. On the whole, they are a s ...
Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity (Kreft H, Jetz W PNAS 2007;104:5925-5930) Fig. 3. Global patterns of vascular plant species richness. ( a ) The geographic distribution of the richness data of vascular plants for ...