Mountains create steep environmental gradients that are sensitive barometers of climate
change. We calibrated 10 statistical models to formulate ensemble ecological niche models …

Mountains are the world's most important centers of biodiversity. The Sino-Himalayan
Mountains are global biodiversity hotspot due to their extremely high species richness and …

Several methods based on the sequentially Markovian coalescent (SMC) make use of full
genome sequence data from samples to infer population demographic history including past …

Species residing across elevational gradients display adaptations in response to
environmental changes such as oxygen availability, ultraviolet radiation, and temperature …

The strength of phylogeographic breaks can vary among species in the same area despite
being subject to the same geological and climate history due to differences in biological …

Thuja sutchuenensis Franch. is an extremely endangered conifer (Cupressaceae) species
that is endemic to southwestern China. It was once considered extinct in the wild and was …

Understanding biological diversity and the mechanisms of the Sino‐Japanese disjunctions
are major challenges in eastern Asia biogeography. The Sino‐Japanese flora has been …

Various environmental factors impact the distribution, population structure, demography and
evolutionary trajectory of a bird species, leading to genetic and morphological divergences …

Genetic stochasticity and bottlenecking in the course of Pleistocene glaciations have been
identified as threatening the survival of local endemics. However, the mechanisms by which …

Orographic and climatic oscillations have played crucial roles in shaping the nucleotide
diversity and evolutionary history of many species across the Northern Hemisphere. In this …