Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

A Antonelli, WD Kissling, SGA Flantua… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Mountains are key features of the Earth's surface and host a substantial proportion of the
world's species. However, the links between the evolution and distribution of biodiversity …

Mountains as evolutionary arenas: patterns, emerging approaches, paradigm shifts, and their implications for plant phylogeographic research in the Tibeto-Himalayan …

AN Muellner-Riehl - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recently, the “mountain-geobiodiversity hypothesis”(MGH) was proposed as a key concept
for explaining the high levels of biodiversity found in mountain systems of the Tibeto …

[HTML][HTML] Origins and evolution of plant diversity in the Hengduan Mountains, China

H Sun, J Zhang, T Deng, DE Boufford - Plant Diversity, 2017 - Elsevier
The Hengduan Mountains region (HDM) in southwest China, one of the earth's 34
biodiversity hotspots, is characterized by its unique geology, dramatic topography, a climate …

Pan-genome and phylogenomic analyses highlight Hevea species delineation and rubber trait evolution

Y Fang, X Xiao, J Lin, Q Lin, J Wang, K Liu, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is the world's sole commercial source of natural
rubber, a vital industrial raw material. However, the narrow genetic diversity of this crop …

Repeated upslope biome shifts in Saxifraga during late-Cenozoic climate cooling

T Carruthers, MS Moerland, J Ebersbach… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mountains are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, and plant lineages that inhabit
them have some of the highest speciation rates ever recorded. Plant diversity within the …

Out of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains: phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of Polygonatum Mill.(Asparagaceae) in the Northern Hemisphere

M Xia, Y Liu, J Liu, D Chen, Y Shi, Z Chen… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clarifying the process of formation of diversity hotspots and the biogeographic connection
between regions is critical in understanding the impact of environmental changes on …

Testing the role of the Red Queen and Court Jester as drivers of the macroevolution of Apollo butterflies

FL Condamine, J Rolland, S Höhna… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In macroevolution, the Red Queen (RQ) model posits that biodiversity dynamics
depend mainly on species-intrinsic biotic factors such as interactions among species or life …

Plant speciation in the Quaternary

JW Kadereit, RJ Abbott - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to the Hengduan Mountains

Y Chang, K Gelwick, SD Willett, X Shen… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The geographic distribution of plant diversity matches the gradient of habitat heterogeneity
from lowlands to mountain regions. However, little is known about how much this …

Tempo and drivers of plant diversification in the European mountain system

J Smyčka, C Roquet, M Boleda, A Alberti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There is still limited consensus on the evolutionary history of species-rich temperate alpine
floras due to a lack of comparable and high-quality phylogenetic data covering multiple plant …