A common hypothesis for the rich biodiversity found in mountains is uplift-driven
diversification—that orogeny creates conditions favoring rapid in situ speciation of resident …

Little has been published to describe or interpret Asian biodiversity hotspots, including those
in the East Himalayan Mountains of Southwest China (HMSC), thus making necessary a …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than two-thirds …

Predicting the response of biota to climate change is an active field of research.
Advancements in the field of genomics has revolutionized climate change research …

Globally, high elevation habitats have been independently colonized by taxa separated by
millions of years of evolution. Mountains thus represent excellent systems to study how …

Taxonomic nestedness, the degree to which the taxonomic composition of species‐poor
assemblages represents a subset of richer sites, commonly occurs in habitat fragments and …

Abstract The India–Asia collision profoundly influenced the climate, topography and
biodiversity of Asia, causing the formation of the biodiverse Himalayas. The species-rich …

Longstanding theory predicts that competitive interactions set species' range limits in
relatively aseasonal, species-rich regions, while temperature limits distributions in more …

Abstract Nepal Himalayas combine Oriental and Sino-Japanese zoogeographic realms as
well as those of the eastern and western Himalayas. Physiography coupled with the diverse …

Range expansions are limited by two key factors. These are (1) dispersal, which includes a
species' intrinsic mobility, geographical barriers, and their interaction; and (2) the ability of a …