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Palaeoclimate has a major effect on the diversity of endemic species in the hotspot of mountain biodiversity in Tajikistan. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2021
Raduła M, Świerszcz S, Nobis M, Nowak S, Nobis A, Nowak A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Land use change and mountain biodiversity

, 2010
Human activities have significantly influenced high elevation landscapes and hence also biodiversity of high-elevation patures and rangelands all over the world.

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Rapid altitudinal migration of mountain plants in Taiwan and its implications for high altitude biodiversity

, 2012
Mountain systems throughout the globe are characterized by high levels of species richness and species endemism. Biodiversity, however, is not distributed evenly with altitude, but often declines from mid to high altitudes.
Alistair S. Jump, Chang-Hung Chou, Huang, Tsurng-Juhn, Tsurng-Juhn Huang, Chou, Chang-Hung, Jump, Alistair   +5 more
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Increase in plant productivity in the tundra in Sweden is not related to increasing presence of warm‐adapted vascular plant species

Ecography, EarlyView.
Over the past decades, Arctic and alpine biomes have warmed faster than the global average. Substantial vegetation changes have been reported as a response to this warming, including increased productivity and the spread of warm‐adapted (thermophilic) species that are less resistant to grazing pressure into higher latitudes and altitudes.
Tim Horstkotte, Jakob Assmann, Henrik Hedenås, Signe Normand, Johan Olofsson   +4 more
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Integrating Morphology and Chloroplast Genomics: A New East Asian Species of Aletris (Nartheciaceae) With Insights Into Regional Phylogeny and Evolution

Ecology and Evolution
The genus Aletris L. (Nartheciaceae) encompasses approximately 21–24 species distributed in East Asia and North America, yet taxonomic ambiguity persists due to overlapping morphological traits among closely related species.
Xiong Li, Yong‐Ling Qiu, Jiang‐Tao Li, Bo Xu, Qi Yu, Wen‐Bin Ju   +5 more
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Characterizing the composition, metabolism and physiological functions of the fatty liver in Rana omeimontis tadpoles

Frontiers in Zoology, 2019
Background Fat storage is required for the life cycle of many organisms. The primary fat depot for most vertebrates is white adipose tissue. However, in primitive vertebrates (e.g., agnathan group and elasmobranchs), the liver is usually responsible for ...
Wei Zhu, Meihua Zhang, Liming Chang, Wenbo Zhu, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Huan Zhang, Tian Zhao, Jianping Jiang   +8 more
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Asymmetric species turnover underpins the latitudinal diversity gradient in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot of India

Ecography, EarlyView.
Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs), namely an increase in species richness from higher to lower latitudes, are one of ecology's best documented patterns, yet how the fundamental components of compositional mismatches (i.e. species gains and losses along a gradient) explain these patterns remains poorly understood.
Rohitashva Shukla, Vidyadhar Atkore, Anuradha Bhat, Neelesh Dahanukar, Jeyaraj Antony Johnson, Rajeev Raghavan, Maria Dornelas, Kartik Shanker, Anne E. Magurran   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land-use links soil health and microbial functional traits to ecosystem productivity

Ecological Indicators
Soil health underpins ecosystem functioning, yet its overarching role in underlying net primary productivity (NPP) across contrasting land-use types remains insufficiently quantified.
Junbo Zhou, Qinghua Liu, Chengjing He, Yue Zhu, Pengpeng Wang, Guiqiao Yang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Xueyong Pang   +7 more
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Taxon‐dependent multisite species turnover in fragmented habitats: comparing zeta diversity across birds, butterflies, and cursorial hunting spiders

Ecography, EarlyView.
Habitat fragmentation alters species diversity and reshapes community composition. However, conventional pairwise approaches to compositional variation (i.e. beta diversity metrics) do not explicitly characterize how species sharing or turnover change with the number of habitat patches.
Shirui Yu, Yufeng Zhou, Qiyu Jiang, Jie Xie, Yan Wang, Qiwen Du, Shang Sheng, Yaqian Cui, Kai Zhang, Zhixin Wen, Hao Yu, Yu Xu   +11 more
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Blattodea as potential indicators of Peninsula Granite Fynbos restoration following the clear-felling of pine plantations [PDF]

, 2013
Alien plant invasions pose a major threat to the biodiversity of the Cape Peninsula; currently facilitating the transformation of native vegetation and alien invertebrate invasions.
Dyer, Alexei
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