[Taxacom] Biodiversity hotspots SE Asia

[Michael Heads]

Hi John,
 
Hawkins (2010 J Biogeogr) showed arborescent plant families most diverse in Malesia (Malaysia/Indonesia/Philippines/New Guinea), also Panama/Costa Rica (bit hard to read his color-coded map). An example of a widespread Old World group with its highest species diversity in Sulawesi is Macaca.  
   That's not much I'm afraid - it seems Sulawesi biogeography is overdue for a review paper.   
 
Michael Heads

Wellington, New Zealand.

My papers on biogeography are at: http://tiny.cc/RiUE0

--- On Mon, 27/6/11, John Grehan <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org> wrote:


From: John Grehan <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org>
Subject: [Taxacom] Biodiversity hotspots SE Asia
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Received: Monday, 27 June, 2011, 4:39 AM


Can anyone direct me to one or more recent papers that identify global
centers of biodiversity? I recall there were one or two papers (maybe in
Nature or Science) that did this with some color coded maps. I am
interested to see if the region of South East Asia, particularly the
region of the Lesser Sunda and Celebes showed up in any particular way.
I could probably track (and no bad pun unintended) this down next week,
but it would be helpful to me to find these articles as soon as possible
for possible citation purposes and I am assuming that some on this list
probably keep apace with global biodiversity overviews.

Thanks,

John Grehan
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