Plant species richness and fire-response traits in the five Mediterranean-type climate regions of the world

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Reference Rundel PW et al., Fire and Plant Diversification in Mediterranean-Climate Regions. Front Plant Sci. 2018 Jul 3 9 :851. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00851 abstract & p.3 table 1PubMed ID30018621
Primary Source Cowling, R. M., Potts, A. J., Bradshaw, P., Colville, J., Arianoutsou, M., Ferrier, S., et al. (2014). Variation in plant diversity in Mediterranean climate ecosystems: the role of climatic and topographical stability. J. Biogeogr. 42, 552–564. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12429
Comments P.2 right column 3rd paragraph: "The Cape Region is consistently the most diverse of the five regions relative to area at any spatial scale, and arguably among the highest in the world per unit land area, followed by southwestern Australia as a distant second (Table 1)." See note beneath table
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