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A, Map of Africa showing the location of Ethiopia and Eritrea, East Africa. B, Map of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The colors green and red represent the lowest and highest altitudes (m a.s.l.), respectively. Grid cells of 0.5° × 0.5° are based on longitude and latitude.
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Back ground: Biodiversity is the basic units and measures of the health of ecosystems that provide diverse goods and services for the well-being of human societies and other life forms. However, in this era due to the threats from climatic change and other human-driven environmental changes the earth’s biodiversity is in a grave danger in the world...
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... and Eritrea are located in East Africa between 02°57'47" to 18°12'40"N and 32°41'49" to 49°27'10"E, covering an area of ca. 1.251 million km 2 (Fig. 1). They have different types of flora because of their varying geologic, topographic, and climatic diversity ( Senbeta et al., 2007;Tadesse et al., 2017). The vegetation of Ethiopia can be broadly categorized into 10 major types, namely, Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine vegetation, dry evergreen montane vegetation, moist evergreen montane ...
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... records of 5781 species belonging to 196 families and 1463 genera. It is common to use grid cells based on longitude and latitude of different unit sizes, such as 0.25° × 0.25°, 0.5° × 0.5°, and 1° × 1°, to analyze the spatial pattern of plant species ( López-Pujol et al., 2011;Rangel et al., 2018). Here, we chose 0.5° × 0.5° grid cell (Fig. 1) to accommodate the narrowest distance in the administrative area of the recorded species. We recorded the administrative distribution and elevation range of each species from the FEE, matched the corresponding grid cells of the administrative area where the plant is distributed, and then combined the altitude range of the plant ...
