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Elevational gradient of vascular plant species richness and endemism in Crete--the effect of post-isolation mountain uplift on a continental island system. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Understanding diversity patterns along environmental gradients and their underlying mechanisms is a major topic in current biodiversity research. In this study, we investigate for the first time elevational patterns of vascular plant species richness and
Panayiotis Trigas, Maria Panitsa, Spyros Tsiftsis   +2 more
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Elevational gradients in bird diversity in the Eastern Himalaya: an evaluation of distribution patterns and their underlying mechanisms. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Understanding diversity patterns and the mechanisms underlying those patterns along elevational gradients is critically important for conservation efforts in montane ecosystems, especially those that are biodiversity hotspots.
Bhoj Kumar Acharya, Nathan J Sanders, Lalitha Vijayan, Basundhara Chettri   +3 more
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Soil pH and Organic Carbon Properties Drive Soil Bacterial Communities in Surface and Deep Layers Along an Elevational Gradient

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Elevational gradients strongly affect the spatial distribution and structure of soil bacterial communities. However, our understanding of the effects and determining factors is still limited, especially in the deep soil layer.
Qiuxiang Tian, Qiuxiang Tian, Ying Jiang, Yanan Tang, Yanan Tang, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Zhiyao Tang, Feng Liu, Feng Liu   +9 more
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Distribution and Assemblage Variation of Benthic Macroinvertebrates: A Uniform Elevational Biodiversity Pattern Among Different Groups?

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Biodiversity patterns along the elevational gradient of vertebrates have been widely focused on in previous studies, but they are still insufficient on invertebrates in lakes to a wide elevational extent.
Baoqiang Wang, Baoqiang Wang, Yajing He, Yajing He, Yongjing Zhao, Yongde Cui   +5 more
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Cuticular hydrocarbons of alpine bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Bombus) are species-specific, but show little evidence of elevation-related climate adaptation

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Alpine bumble bees are the most important pollinators in temperate mountain ecosystems. Although they are used to encounter small-scale successions of very different climates in the mountains, many species respond sensitively to climatic changes ...
Fabienne Maihoff, Simone Sahler, Simon Schoger, Kristof Brenzinger, Katharina Kallnik, Nikki Sauer, Lukas Bofinger, Thomas Schmitt, Sabine S. Nooten, Alice Classen   +9 more
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Spatial Congruence or Mismatch Between Phylogenetic and Functional Structure of Seed Plants Along a Tropical Elevational Gradient: Different Traits Have Different Patterns

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Compared to species richness, few studies have investigated the patterns and relationship of phylogenetic and functional structures along elevational gradients.
Yadong Zhou, Yadong Zhou, Shengwei Wang, Shengwei Wang, Antony W. Njogu, Antony W. Njogu, Anne C. Ochola, Anne C. Ochola, Biyansa H. Boru, Biyansa H. Boru, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang, Qingfeng Wang   +14 more
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Elevational gradients in β-diversity reflect variation in the strength of local community assembly mechanisms across spatial scales. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Despite long-standing interest in elevational-diversity gradients, little is known about the processes that cause changes in the compositional variation of communities (β-diversity) across elevations.
J Sebastián Tello, Jonathan A Myers, Manuel J Macía, Alfredo F Fuentes, Leslie Cayola, Gabriel Arellano, M Isabel Loza, Vania Torrez, Maritza Cornejo, Tatiana B Miranda, Peter M Jørgensen   +10 more
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The effect of elevational gradient on alpine gingers (Roscoea alpina and R. purpurea) in the Himalayas [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
There is currently enormous interest in how morphological and physiological responses of herbaceous plants may be affected by changing elevational gradient.
Babu Ram Paudel, Adrian G. Dyer, Jair E. Garcia, Mani Shrestha   +3 more
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Effects of logging on landscape-level tree diversity across an elevational gradient in Bornean tropical forests

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Logging has caused a substantial loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. Therefore, it is important to examine how logging affects biodiversity on a landscape scale to plan responsible management of a tropical forest. Although a number of
Sakiko Yano, Ryota Aoyagi, Fujiki Shogoro, John B. Sugau, Joan T. Pereira, Kanehiro Kitayama   +5 more
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Natural and human-impacted diversity of bryophytes along an elevational gradient on an oceanic island (La Palma, Canarias).

PLoS ONE, 2019
Bryophytes have been proposed as ideal indicators of ecosystem change, because they are important components of forest integrity, and considerable research indicates that some groups are sensitive to the changes associated with specific human ...
Raquel Hernández-Hernández, Jürgen Kluge, Claudine Ah-Peng, Juana María González-Mancebo   +3 more
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