Himalayan countries face many ecological challenges, including biodiversity loss and the
many threats of climate change. In response, these countries are implementing Nature …

Aim Identifying macroecological patterns and biases in species distribution is a challenging
but essential task in biodiversity‐oriented studies. Despite extensive attempts to find …

The nectar-feeding bats of the genus Anoura are widely distributed in the Neotropics, but are
most speciose in the Andes. Anoura cultrata is a rare mid-elevation bat occurring in South …

Although it is well documented that mountains tend to exhibit high biodiversity, how
geological processes affect the assemblage of montane floras is a matter of ongoing …

Many of the most dramatic patterns in biological diversity are created by “Perfect Storms”—
rare combinations of mutually reinforcing factors that push origination, extinction, or diversity …

Conservation areas encompassing elevation gradients are biodiversity hotspots because
they contain a wide range of habitat types in a relatively small space. Studies of biodiversity …

Questions How do seed rain biomass and richness change from old‐growth tropical forests
to pastures at different elevations? How do seed mass and seed dispersal mode change …

Mountain ranges are hotspots of biodiversity. However, the mechanisms that generate
biodiversity patterns in different mountainous regions and taxa are not apparent. The …

Rainforests on high tropical mountains are globally important species diversity hotspots. We
studied amphibians along an extensive rainforest elevation gradient on Mt. Wilhelm (4509 …

This chapter reviews the conceptual and methodological issues related to latitudinal and
elevational gradients of species richness at distinct scales. We start with the debates about …