Journal
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 806-816Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102483
Keywords
biogeography; endemicity; optimality criterion
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A formal method was developed to determine areas of endemism. The study region is divided into cells, and the number of species that can be considered as endemic is counted for a given set of cells (= area). Thus, the areas with the maximum number of species considered endemic are preferred. This is the first method for the identification of areas of endemism that implements an optimality criterion directly based on considering the aspects of species distribution that are relevant to endemism. The method is implemented in two computer programs, NDM and VNDM, available from the authors.
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