Islands are geographically defined as land masses completely surrounded by water, and
island systems have been used as models for many biogeographic, ecological, and …

Sky islands are unique geologic formations, home to populations of organisms that have
weathered climate change since the Pleistocene. Long-term isolation and climatic …

Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

Aim Alpine ecosystems differ in area, macroenvironment and biogeographical history across
the Earth, but the relationship between these factors and plant species richness is still …

Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: A comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis for students
and researchers Mountains are topographically complex formations that play a fundamental …

The distribution of species in the present is just a snapshot in time after millions of years of
change. Pleistocene climatic cycles, varying from 100ky to sub‐millennial scales, played an …

Sky islands are high-elevation areas in continental mountain ranges, which are
geographically isolated. We adopted this concept for the mountains in southwest China …

Abstract Aim The Himalaya‐Hengduan Mountain (HHM) biodiversity hotspot including the
'sky islands' of Southwest China harbour exceptional plant diversity and endemicity at …

The study of biodiversity started as a single unified field that spanned both ecology and
evolution and both macro and micro phenomena. But over the 20th century, major trends …

With the continued adoption of genome‐scale data in evolutionary biology comes the
challenge of adequately harnessing the information to make accurate phylogenetic …