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The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts by Hudson, L.N., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Hill, SL, Lysenko, I., Palma, A. de, Phillips, HR, Senior, R.A., Bennett, D.J., Booth, H., Choimes, A., Correia, D.L., Day, J, Echeverría-Londoño, S., Garon, M, Harrison, M.L., Ingram, D.J., Jung, M, Kemp, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Martin, C.D., Pan, Y, White, H.J., Aben, J., Abrahamczyk, Stefan, Adum, G.B., Aguilar-Barquero, V., Aizen, Marcelo A., Ancrenaz, M., Arbeláez Cortés, E., Armbrecht, Inge, Azhar, B., Azpiroz, A.B., Baeten, L., Báldi, A., Banks, J.E., Barlow, J., Batáry, Péter, Bates, AJ, Bayne, EM, Beja, P., Berg, A., Berry, N.J., Bicknell, J.E., Bihn, J.H., Böhning-Gaese, K., Boekhout, T., Boutin, Céline, Bouyer, J., Brearley, F.Q., Brito, I., Brunet, J., Buczkowski, G., Buscardo, E., Cabra García, J., Calviño-Cancela, M., Cameron, S.A., Cancello, E.M., Carrijo, T.F., Carvalho, A.L., Castro, H., Castro-Luna, A.A., Cerda, R., Cerezo, A., Chauvat, M, Clarke, F.M., Cleary, D.F., Connop, S.P., D'Aniello, B., Silva, P.G. da, Darvill, Ben, Dauber, J., Dejean, A., Diekötter, Tim, Domínguez Haydar, Y., Dormann, Carsten F., Dumont, B., Dures, S.G., Dynesius, M., Edenius, L., Elek, Z., Entling, Martin H., Farwig, N., Fayle, TM, Felicioli, A, Felton, AM, Ficetola, GF, Filgueiras, B.K.C., Fonte, Steven J., Fraser, LH, Fukuda, D., Furlani, D, Ganzhorn, J.U., Garden, JG, Gheler-Costa, C., Giordani, P, Giordano, S., Gottschalk, MS, Goulson, D, Gove, A.D., Grogan, J., Hanley, M.E., Hanson, T, Hashim, N.R., Hawes JE, Hébert, C, Helden, AJ, Henden, JA, Hernández, L., Herzog, F, Higuera-Diaz, D, Hilje, B, Horgan, FG, Horváth, R., Hylander, K., Isaacs-Cubides, P., Ishitani, Manabu, Jacobs, C.T., Jaramillo, V.J., Jauker, Birgit, Jonsell, M., Jung, TS, Kapoor, V, Kati, V, Katovai E, Kessler, M, Knop, E., Kolb, A, K'rösi, Á, Lachat, T, Lantschner, V., Le Féon, Violette, LeBuhn, G., Légaré, J.P., Letcher, SG, Littlewood, N.A., López Quintero, C.A., Louhaichi, Mounir, Lövei, G.L., Lucas-Borja, M.E., Luja, VH, Maeto, K, Magura, T, Mallari, N.A., Marín Spiotta, E., Marshall, EJ, Martínez, E., Mayfield, MM, Mikusinski, G., Milder, Jeffrey C., Miller, JR, Morales, C.L., Muchane, MN, Muchane, M, Naidoo, R, Nakamura, A, Naoe, S, Nates-Parra, G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Neuschulz, E.L., Noreika, N, Norfolk, O., Noriega, J.A., Nöske, NM, O'Dea, N, Oduro, W, Ofori-Boateng, C., Oke, C.O., Osgathorpe, Lynne M., Paritsis, J, Parra-H, A, Pelegrin, N., Peres, C.A., Persson, AS, Petanidou, Theodora, Phalan, B., Philips, TK, Poveda, Katja, Power, Eileen F., Presley, S.J., Proença, V, Quaranta, M, Quintero, C., Redpath-Downing, N.A., Reid, J.L., Reis, Y.T., Ribeiro, DB, Richardson, BA, Richardson, MJ, Robles, C.A., Römbke, J., Romero Duque, L.P., Rosselli, L., Rossiter, S.J., Roulston, T.H., Rousseau, Laurent, Sadler, Jonathan P., Sáfián, S., Saldaña Vázquez, R.A., Samnegård, Ulrika, Schüepp, Christof, Schweiger, Oliver, Sedlock, J.L., Shahabuddin, G., Sheil, Douglas, Silva, F.A., Slade, E.M., Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Sodhi, N.S., Somarriba, E.J., Sosa, R.A., Stout, Jane C., Struebig, MJ, Sung, Y.H., Threlfall, C.G., Tonietto, Rebecca K., Tóthmérész, B., Tscharntke, Teja, Turner, E.C., Tylianakis, Jason M., Vanbergen, A.J., Vassilev, K., Verboven, Hans A.F., Vergara, Carlos H., Vergara, P.M., Verhulst, J., Walker, TR, Wang, Y., Watling, J.I., Wells, K, Williams, CD, Willig, MR, Woinarski, JC, Wolf, Jan H. D., Woodcock, Ben A., Yu, DW, Zaitsev, A.S., Collen, B., Ewers, R.M., Mace, Georgina M., Purves, D.W., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Purvis, Andy

“…The database contains measurements taken in 208 (of 814) ecoregions, 13 (of 14) biomes, 25 (of 35) biodiversity hotspots and 16 (of 17) megadiverse countries. The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups – including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. …”
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The Economics of the Conservation of Crop Genetic Resources in Colombia: A Case Study for Five Specific Crops by Moreno, Rocío del Pilar

“…For this reason, Colombia is within the group of countries called "megadiversive countries." The great diversity of ecosystems in Colombia has been attributed to factors such as its localization between the two tropics and the great variety of altitudes, soils and climates that have formed many and different geographical zones. …”
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Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network by Gomes-da-Silva, Janaina, Filardi, Fabiana L.R., Barbosa, María Regina V., Baumgratz, José Fernando A., Bicudo, Carlos E.M., Cavalcanti, Taciana B., Coelho, Marcus A.N., Costa, Andrea F., Costa, Denise P., Couto Dalcin, Eduardo, Labiak, Paulo, Lima, Haroldo C., Lohmann, , Lúcia G., Maia, Leonor C., Mansano, Vidal F., Menezes, Mariângela, Morim, Marli P., Moura, Carlos Wallace N., Lughadha, Eimear Nic, Peralta, Denilson F., Prado, Jefferson, Roque, Nádia, Stehmann, João Renato, Sylvestre, Lana S., Trierveiler-Pereira, Larissa, Walter, Bruno M.T., Zimbrão, Geraldo, Forzza, Rafaela C., Morales, Matias

“…Over the past decade, numerous countries worldwide have devoted considerable effort to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which called for the preparation of a working list of all known plant species by 2010 and an online world Flora by 2020. Brazil is a megadiverse country, home to more of the world’s known plant species than any other country. …”
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