The use of systematic information to reveal and analyse geographic biodiversity patterns

Marco Roos

Extensive data bases of specimen information on Malesian plant diversity have been established and are being further developed. These data bases give ample opportunity to make large-scale quantitative analysis of geographic biodiversity patterns in the Indo-Pacific region. They can be compared to the available data on zoological organisms. As recently quite an amount of phylogeny reconstructions of Malesian animal and plant taxa have been published, various ways of weighting (including those based on taxic dispersion) can be applied and compared at a regional scale.

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