The factors responsible for maintaining diverse groundcover plant communities of high conservation value in frequently burned wet pine savannas are poorly understood. While most management involves manipulating extrinsic factors important in maintaining species diversity (e.g., fire regimes), most ecological theory (e.g., niche theory and neutral theory) examines how traits exhibited by the spe...

Aim The Mediterranean Basin is a major hotspot of plant biodiversity, including forest trees. Over the past centuries, forests have been fragmented and over-exploited, to which threats climate change are now added. Our aim better understand patterns processes tree biodiversity in provide indicators complementing traditional approaches conservation based on species counts occurrences, using geor...

Phylogenetic reconstruction using the mitochondrial 16S marker shows the presence of a cryptic species of Cacosternum (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) from the eastern Great Escarpment of South Africa, supporting the Greater Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany region of vertebrate endemism. Bioacoustic and morphological characteristics, in conjunction with colouration differences, allow the description of this ...