Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: current knowledge and future perspectives

MC Wambulwa, R Milne, ZY Wu, RA Spicer… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain ecosystems support a significant one‐third of all terrestrial biodiversity, but our
understanding of the spatiotemporal maintenance of this high biodiversity remains poor, or …

Orographic evolution of northern Tibet shaped vegetation and plant diversity in eastern Asia

SF Li, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth, T Davies-Barnard… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The growth of the Tibetan Plateau throughout the past 66 million years has profoundly
affected the Asian climate, but how this unparalleled orogenesis might have driven …

[HTML][HTML] Siwalik plant megafossil diversity in the Eastern Himalayas: A review

MA Khan, S Mahato, RA Spicer, TEV Spicer, A Ali… - Plant Diversity, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Himalayas are renowned for their high plant diversity. To understand
how this modern botanical richness formed, it is critical to investigate past plant biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] Cenozoic topography, monsoons and biodiversity conservation within the Tibetan Region: An evolving story

RA Spicer, A Farnsworth, T Su - Plant Diversity, 2020 - Elsevier
The biodiversity of the Himalaya, Hengduan Mountains and Tibet, here collectively termed
the Tibetan Region, is exceptional in a global context. To contextualize and understand the …

Miocene to Pleistocene floras and climate of the Eastern Himalayan Siwaliks, and new palaeoelevation estimates for the Namling–Oiyug Basin, Tibet

MA Khan, RA Spicer, S Bera, R Ghosh, J Yang… - Global and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Four fossil floras ranging in age from the mid Miocene to the early Pleistocene from the
eastern Siwaliks near Darjeeling and in Arunachal Pradesh (AP) were compared …

A tropical forest of the middle Miocene of Fujian (SE China) reveals Sino-Indian biogeographic affinities

FMB Jacques, G Shi, T Su, Z Zhou - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The middle Miocene Fotan flora of Zhangpu County, South Fujian, China has been
considered to represent tropical rainforest based on the occurrence of distinctive winged fruit …

Age constraints on a Neogene tropical rainforest in China and its relation to the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum

D Zheng, G Shi, SR Hemming, H Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tropical rainforests have strongly influenced Earth systems throughout their evolutionary
history. Plant taxa found in the Fotan Group of Fujian Province indicate that an Asian tropical …

[HTML][HTML] Neogene–Quaternary Mammalian paleobiogeography of the Indian Subcontinent: an appraisal

R Patnaik - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2016 - Elsevier
A biostratigraphic evaluation of the Indian subcontinent Neogene–Quaternary mammal
genera at 1 Ma intervals reveals a strong correlation between faunal turnovers (first and last …

The first fossil record of ring-cupped oak (Quercus L. subgenus Cyclobalanopsis (Oersted) Schneider) in Tibet and its paleoenvironmental implications

H Xu, T Su, ST Zhang, M Deng, ZK Zhou - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Some taxa are good indicators of particular climates because their distribution is determined
by specific temperature or precipitation requirements. Ring-cupped oaks (Quercus L …

Flower inclusions of Canarium (Burseraceae) from Miocene Zhangpu amber (China)

S Beurel, JB Bachelier, JU Hammel, GL Shi, XT Wu… - Palaeoworld, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Miocene amber from Zhangpu (Fujian Province, southeastern China) has
recently displayed a significant palaeobiodiversity with numerous inclusions of insects …