Ecological versus biogeographical regionalization: Colliding or colluding?

Abstract

This perspective addresses the nature of the past and current relationships between the ecological and biogeographical regionalization of plants and plant communities. It uses four examples (two related to continental scale and two related to regional/local scale) to document the cases of cross-pollination between both approaches in the past and the need for concerted use of both ecological and distributional data in formulating robust regional spatial classification systems of biotic assemblages.