The use of DNA sequence data in systematic studies has brought about a revolution in our
understanding of avian relationships and when combined with digitized distributional data …

The Eastern Arc Mountains are renown in Africa for high concentrations of endemic species
of animals and plants. Thirteen separate mountain blocks comprise the Eastern Arc …

Ecological regions aggregate habitats with similar biophysical characteristics within well-
defined boundaries, providing spatially consistent platforms for monitoring, managing and …

Background Sky islands, formed by the highest reaches of mountain tracts physically
isolated from one another, represent one of the biodiversity-rich regions of the world …

Aim Montane tropics are areas of high endemism, and mechanisms driving this endemism
have been receiving increasing attention at a global scale. A general trend is that climatic …

Gigantism and dwarfism evolve in vertebrates restricted to islands. We describe four new
species in the Rhinolophus hildebrandtii species-complex of horseshoe bats, whose …

Climbing mice in the genus Dendromus (sensu lato) are widely distributed in Africa, south of
the Saharan Desert. The 17 currently recognized species in the genus range from …

Ecological biogeography studies the factors that define the spatial distribution of species in
the present time. This review summarises recent contributions on ecological biogeography …

Species with similar geographical distribution patterns are often assumed to have a shared
biogeographical history, an assumption that can be tested with a combination of molecular …

Abstract The Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania and Kenya are one of 35 global biodiversity
hotspots. The Eastern Arc forests are, as are many other tropical biodiversity hotspots, highly …