Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

Knowledge of species composition and their interactions, in the form of interaction networks,
is required to understand processes shaping their distribution over time and space. As such …

生物多样性沿环境梯度的变化趋势是生物多样性研究的一个重要议题, 而海拔梯度包含了多种
环境因子的梯度效应, 因此研究生物多样性的海拔梯度格局对于揭示生物多样性的环境梯度变化 …

The elevational patterns of diversity for plants and animals have been well established over
the past century. However, it is unclear whether there is a general elevational distribution …

Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their shaping
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Neotropical mammal diversity is currently threatened by several chronic human-induced
pressures. We compiled 1,029 contemporary mammal assemblages surveyed across the …

The abiotic and biotic gradients on mountains have enormous potential to improve our
understanding of species distributions, species richness patterns and conservation. Here we …

Conservation biology aims at identifying areas of rich biodiversity. Currently recognized
global biodiversity hotspots are spatially too coarse for conservation management and …

Aim Current weaknesses of diversity theory include: a failure to distinguish different
biogeographical response variables under the general heading of diversity; and a general …

Despite two centuries of exploration, our understanding of factors determining the
distribution of life on Earth is in many ways still in its infancy. Much of the disagreement …