Species delimitation, phylogenomics, and biogeography of Sulawesi flying lizards: a diversification history complicated by ancient hybridization, cryptic species, and …

JA Mcguire, X Huang, SB Reilly, DT Iskandar… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The biota of Sulawesi is noted for its high degree of endemism and for its substantial levels
of in situ biological diversification. While the island's long period of isolation and dynamic …

Origin of elevational replacements in a clade of nearly flightless birds: most diversity in tropical mountains accumulates via secondary contact following allopatric …

CD Cadena, LN Céspedes - Neotropical diversification: Patterns and …, 2020 - Springer
Tropical mountains are biodiversity hotspots. In particular, mountains in the Neotropics
exhibit remarkable beta diversity reflecting species turnover along elevational gradients …

Area not geographic isolation mediates biodiversity responses of alpine refugia to climate change

JD Huxley, MJ Spasojevic - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate refugia, where local populations of species can persist through periods of
unfavorable regional climate, play a key role in the maintenance of regional biodiversity …

Integrative methods reveal multiple drivers of diversification in rice paddy snakes

JM Bernstein, HK Voris, BL Stuart, DR Karns… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Divergence dating analyses in systematics provide a framework to develop and test
biogeographic hypotheses regarding speciation. However, as molecular datasets grow from …

Environment‐dependent influence of fruit size upon the distribution of the Malesian archipelagic flora

LA Trethowan, L Jennings, G Bramley… - Plants, People …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement We found evidence that larger fruited plant species are more
likely to be found in aseasonal wet areas of Malesia. These areas are likely to be impacted …

Long-term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation history

A Salces-Castellano, S Stankowski, P Arribas… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Montane cloud forests are areas of high endemism, and are one of the more vulnerable
terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. Thus, understanding how they both contribute to …

Little genetic structure in a Bornean endemic small mammal across a steep ecological gradient

LD Parker, MTR Hawkins… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Janzen's influential “mountain passes are higher in the tropics” hypothesis predicts restricted
gene flow and genetic isolation among populations spanning elevational gradients in the …

Fourteen new, endemic species of shrew (genus Crocidura) from Sulawesi reveal a spectacular island radiation

JA Esselstyn, AS Achmadi, H Handika… - Bulletin of the American …, 2021 - BioOne
After nearly a decade of field inventories in which we preserved voucher specimens of the
small terrestrial mammals of Sulawesi, we combined qualitative and quantitative analyses of …

Isolation by marine barriers and climate explain areas of endemism in an island rodent

TC Giarla, SP Maher, AS Achmadi… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is home to thousands of endemic terrestrial
animal species. Phylogeographical studies of some of these taxa revealed concordant …

Population Assessment of Sulawesi's Endangered Snoring Rails (Aramidopsis plateni Blasius) in Gandang Dewata National Park

AKS Putera, Y Nasir, R Rusmidin… - … : Journal of Biology & …, 2023 - journal.unnes.ac.id
This study focuses on assessing the critically endangered mandar dengkur, or snoring rails
(Aramidopsis plateni Blasius 1886), within Indonesia's Gandang Dewata National Park …