Claim · model-written summary
Species richness was estimated higher in New World than Old World regions.
- Taxon
- peatmosse0
- Outcome
- species richnesse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- Old World regionse0
- Setting
- New Worlde0
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Verbatim
e0“Estimates of species richness suggest that peatmoss diversity is higher in New World than Old World regions, and that the Neotropics constitute a "hotspot" of diversity.”
Title
Global patterns in peatmoss biodiversity
A. Jonathan Shaw; Cymon J. Cox; Sandra B. Boles Molecular Ecology 2003. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.01929.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Species richness estimates identify the Neotropics as a hotspot.
- Observation Molecular diversity was almost evenly divided between New and Old World regions.
- Observation Neotropics accounted for only 20-35% of global peatmoss molecular diversity.
- Observation Tropical and boreal peatmoss molecular diversity levels were comparable.
- Observation S. sericeum was remarkably divergent from other Sphagna.
- Observation S. lapazense was remarkably divergent from other Sphagna.
- Observation S. sericeum and S. lapazense together accounted for almost 20% of peatmoss diversity despite representing 0.7% of accessions.