Climate change is altering species ranges, and relative abundances within ranges, as populations become differentially adapted and vulnerable to the climates they face. Understanding present species ranges, whether species harbour and exchange adaptive variants, and how variants are distributed across landscapes undergoing rapid change, is therefore crucial to predicting responses to future climates and informing conservation...

Aim To detect centres of vascular plant endemism at a continental scale by analysis of specimen‐based distributional data and to relate any pattern to environmental factors and history. Location Australia. Methods Presence of 8468 seed plant species‐level taxa throughout continental Australia and Tasmania was mapped on a 1° grid to visualize the pattern of species richness. This sample comprises half the known flora. Three ind...