Ecological Processes, 2021 Background So far, macroecological studies in the Himalaya have mostly concentrated on spatial variation of overall species richness along the elevational gradient.
Kumar Manish
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 How and why biodiversity varies along the elevational gradients is fundamental yet controversial topics in ecology. To advance our understanding on these questions and provide insight into biological conservation, we explore the elevational patterns of ...
Jianchao Liang +6 more
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Turnover‐Dominated β‐Diversity and Its Temperature and Trophic Drivers of Scarabaeoidea Assemblages Along an Elevational Gradient in a Tropical Island Rainforest in China [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMountains serve as ideal natural laboratories for investigating biodiversity patterns along elevational gradients. This study examined α‐diversity (species richness and abundance) and β‐diversity (overall compositional dissimilarity and its turnover and ...
Haoyan Sun +3 more
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Geographic patterns and ecological causes of phylogenetic structure in mosses along an elevational gradient in the central Himalaya [PDF]
Plant DiversityUnderstanding the underlying mechanisms driving species assembly along elevational gradients is of great interest in ecology and biogeography. The Himalaya is one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity, and the elevational gradient of the central ...
Hong Qian, Oriol Grau
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Species and Phylogenetic Diversity of Woody Plants Shift With the Elevational Gradient in Subtropical Forests in South China [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe distribution of biodiversity along elevational gradients and the drivers of these patterns are research hotspots in community ecology; nonetheless, these aspects remain insufficiently understood.
Jing Li +6 more
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Biology, 2022 Spatial biodiversity is a key issue in biogeography for the explorations of biological origin and diversification. However, seldom studies have addressed the temporal changes in spatial patterns of biodiversity.
Qingyi Luo +3 more
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A genome-wide assessment of stages of elevational parapatry in Bornean passerine birds reveals no introgression: implications for processes and patterns of speciation [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Topographically complex regions often contain the close juxtaposition of closely related species along elevational gradients. The evolutionary causes of these elevational replacements, and thus the origin and maintenance of a large portion of species ...
Robert G. Moyle +5 more
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Factors that shape the elevational patterns of plant diversity in the Yatsugatake Mountains, Japan
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Elevation is involved in determining plant diversity in montane ecosystems. This study examined whether the distribution of plants in the Yatsugatake Mountains, central Japan, substantiated hypotheses associated with an elevational diversity gradient ...
Yoshitaka Oishi
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International Journal of Forestry Research, 2023 Environmental variables like elevation affect species composition, diversity, distribution, density, and horizontal and upward growth. Ecologists are constantly working to better understand how species diversity varies along elevational gradients ...
Belachew Bogale Worku +2 more
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Elevational distribution and seasonal dynamics of alpine soil prokaryotic communities
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 The alpine grassland ecosystem is a biodiversity hotspot of plants on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, where rapid climate change is altering the patterns of plant biodiversity along elevational and seasonal gradients of environments.
Junpeng Rui +10 more
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