BIOREALM, the first informatic ontology for comparative biogeography - a means to identify monophyletic biogeographic areas for conservation, based on specific combinations of monophyletic endemic taxa 💻 doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…
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@JBiogeography The concept "monophyletic biogeographic areas" is a mis-extension from phylogenetics, because biogeographic areas do not evolve. There is no expectation of a branching pattern of area nestedness. All areas of the Earth's surface are massively polyphytic.