A Case Study Using Cabo Verde Endemic Flora
fpls-11-00278 March 13, 2020 Time: 18:19 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 13 March 2020 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00278 Bayesian Methods to Analyze Historical Collections in Time and Space: A Case Study Using Cabo Verde Endemic Flora Maria M. Romeiras1,2*, Mark Carine3, Maria Cristina Duarte2, Silvia Catarino1, Filipe S. Dias4,5 and Luís Borda-de-Água4,5 1 LEAF, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2 Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Portugal, 3 Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 4 CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal, 5 CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Laboratório Associado, ISA, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Biological collections, including herbarium specimens, are unique sources of biodiversity data presenting a window on the history of the development and accumulation of knowledge of a specific geographical region. Understanding how the process of Edited by: Kathleen Pryer, discovery impacts that knowledge is particularly important for oceanic islands which Duke University, United States are often characterized by both high levels of endemic diversity and high proportions of Reviewed by: threatened taxa. The archipelagos of the Macaronesian region (i.e. Azores, Canaries, Emily Meineke, Savages, Madeira, and Cabo Verde) have been the focus of attention for scientific Duke University, United States Weston Testo, expeditions since the end of the 17th century.
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