Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often
associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history …

Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic
movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the …

The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

Continental aridification and the intensification of the monsoons in Asia are generally
attributed to uplift of the Tibetan plateau and to the land–sea redistributions associated with …

Phylogeography posits that the sequence of speciation events within a clade should parallel
the geographic migration and isolation of members of the clade through time. The primary …

The global increase in species richness toward the tropics across continents and taxonomic
groups, referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient, stimulated the formulation of many …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

The Paleogene sediments of the southwest Tarim Basin along the West Kunlun Shan in
western China include the remnants of the easternmost extent of a large epicontinental sea …

Bumble bees (Bombus) are a cold-adapted, largely alpine group that can elucidate patterns
of Holarctic historical biogeography, particularly in comparison to the alpine plants with …