Considering that urban expansion and increase of human activities represent important
threats to biodiversity and ecological processes in short and long term, developing protected …

Migrating wildlife species across the globe face a dire predicament as their traditional
migratory routes are cut off by human encroachment. Forced into smaller and smaller …

Empirical studies and habitat suitability modeling project significant shifts in species
distributions in response to climate change. Because habitat fragmentation can impede …

Major topographic features facilitate intraspecific divergence through geographic isolation.
This process may be enhanced by environmental isolation along climatic gradients, but also …

Geoclimatic factors related to the uplift of the Himalaya and the Quaternary climatic
oscillations influence the population genetic connectivity in the Himalaya–Hengduan …

Habitat connectivity is the milestone towards species' long-term persistence, especially
considering impacts of climate change and human activities. Here, we examined the …

Intra-specific genetic diversity is a fundamental component of biodiversity, and is key to
species adaptation and persistence. However, significant knowledge gaps still exist in our …

Background Refugia is considered to be critical for maintaining biodiversity; while discerning
the type and pattern of refugia is pivotal for our understanding of evolutionary processes in …

Background Plant phylogeographic studies of species in subtropical China have mainly
focused on rare and endangered species, whereas few studies have been conducted on …

Background The broad continuum between tropical and temperate floras in Eastern Asia
(EAS) are thought to be one of the main factors responsible for a prominent species diversity …