Global Biodiversity of Lichens Preliminary version 1 April 2014

The table lists for each continent the number of registrated taxa, the number of estimated taxa, the lowest und the highest altitudes, the lowest and the highest rainfall in liter per square meter per year, the area in square kilometer, the percentage of endemic species and the name of the supervisor of the checklist.

 

	10 Continental Units	Registrated	Estimated	Altitude	Rainfall	Area	Endemic Species	Supervisor
1	Africa	3830	4600	x	0 - 5700	30.3 Mill. km2	unknown %	Not decided
2	Antarctica	247	320	x	0 - xxx	13.2 Mill. km2	? %	xxxx ?
3	Asia	334	600	0 - 200	xxx - xxx	xxx	? %	xxx
4	Australia and New Zealand	480	600	0 - 200	xxx - xxx	8.0 Mill. km2	? %	xxx
5	Europe	7264	7500	x - x	xxx - xxx	10.5 Mill. km2	? %	T. Feuerer, University of Hamburg, Germany
6	Middle America	?	500	x - x	xxx - xxx	x	? %	Not decided
7	Middle East	2417	2560	-422 - xxx	0 - xxx	xxx	3 %	M. Schultz, University of Hamburg, Germany
8	North America	321	500	0 - xxx	xxx - xxx	24.9 Mill. km2	? %	Not decided
9	Oceania	377	800	0 - xxx	xxx - xxx	8.5 Mill. km2	? %	xxx
10	South America	4700	200	0 - xxx	xxx - xxx	17.8 Mill. km2	? %	Not decided