Part I. The meaning of endemism. The increasing importance of endemism : responsibility, the media and education / Carsten Hobohm and Caroline M. Tucker
How to quantify endemism / Carsten Hobohm and Caroline M. Tucker
Part II. Endemic vascular plants over time. Factors that create and increase endemism / Ines Bruchmann and Carsten Hobohm
Factors that threaten and reduce endemism / Carsten Hobohm and Ines Bruchmann
Part III. Endemic vascular plants in space. Biogeography of endemic vascular plants : overview / Carsten Hobohm, Monika Janišová, Jan Jansen, Ines Bruchmann, and Uwe Deppe
Endemism on islands : case studies / Andrés Moreira-Muñoz, Sergio Elórtegui Francioli, Carsten Hobohm, and Miguel Pinto da Silva Menezes de Sequeira
Endemism in mainland regions : case studies / Sula E. Vanderplank, Andrés Moreira-Muñoz, Carsten Hobohm, Gerhard Pils, Jalil Noroozi, V. Ralph Clark, Nigel P. Barker, Wenjing Yang, Jihong Huang, Keping Ma, Cindy Q. Tang, Marinus J.A. Werger, Masahiko Ohsawa, and Yongchuan Yang
Part IV. Endemism in vascular plants. Synthesis / Carsten Hobohm, Sula E. Vanderplank, Monika Janišová, Cindy Q. Tang, Gerhard Pils, Marinus J.A. Werger, Caroline M. Tucker, V. Ralph Clark, Nigel P. Barker, Keping Ma, Andrés Moreira-Muñoz, Uwe Deppe, Sergio Elórtegui Francioli, Jihong Huang, Jan Jansen, Masahiko Ohsawa, Jalil Noroozi, Miguel Pinto da Silva Menezes de Sequeira, Ines Bruchmann, Wenjing Yang, and Yongchuan Yang.