Why mountains matter for biodiversity

No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene

(2019) T. Su et al.   Science Advances

Mountains as Evolutionary Arenas: Patterns, Emerging Approaches, Paradigm Shifts, and Their Implications for Plant Phylogeographic Research in the Tibeto-Himalayan Region

(2019) Alexandra N. Muellner-Riehl   Frontiers in Plant Science

Passive uplift of plant and animal populations during mountain‐building

(2019) Michael Heads   CLADISTICS

Going north and south: The biogeographic history of two Malvaceae in the wake of Neogene Andean uplift and connectivity between the Americas

(2019) Carina Hoorn et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos

(2019) Suzette G.A. Flantua et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Unravelling the history of biodiversity in mountain ranges through integrating geology and biogeography

(2019) Shan Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolution of interdisciplinarity in biodiversity science

(2019) Dylan Craven et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

(2019) Carsten Rahbek et al.   SCIENCE

Sex that moves mountains: The influence of spawning fish on river profiles over geologic timescales

(2018) Alexander K. Fremier et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Mountains of diversity

(2018) Alexander Zizka et al.   NATURE

Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of alluvial mudrock forced by early land plants

(2018) William J. McMahon et al.   SCIENCE

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

(2018) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanisms Are Causes, Not Components: A Response to Connolly et al .

(2018) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolutionary persistence in Gunnera and the contribution of southern plant groups to the tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot

(2018) Christine D. Bacon et al.   PeerJ

Global elevational diversity and diversification of birds

(2018) Ignacio Quintero et al.   NATURE

Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   Nature Geoscience

The rise of the Andes promoted rapid diversification in Neotropical Phlegmariurus (Lycopodiaceae)

(2018) Weston L. Testo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Linking species diversification to palaeo-environmental changes: A process-based modelling approach

(2017) Patrice Descombes et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

The impact of early Quaternary climate change on the diversification and population dynamics of a South American cactus species

(2017) Gislaine Angélica Rodrigues Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot

(2017) Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Uplift-driven diversification in the Hengduan Mountains, a temperate biodiversity hotspot

(2017) Yaowu Xing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Multiple Geographical Origins of Environmental Sex Determination enhanced the diversification of Darwin’s Favourite Orchids

(2017) Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar et al.   Scientific Reports

Ancient islands acted as refugia and pumps for conifer diversity

(2016) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   CLADISTICS

Stable isotope paleoaltimetry and the evolution of landscapes and life

(2016) Andreas Mulch   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Quaternary glaciation and the Great American Biotic Interchange

(2016) Christine D. Bacon et al.   GEOLOGY

Available data point to a 4-km-high Tibetan Plateau by 40 Ma, but 100 molecular-clock papers have linked supposed recent uplift to young node ages

(2016) Susanne S. Renner   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The tropical Andean plant diversity powerhouse

(2016) Colin E. Hughes   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in Andean bellflowers (Campanulaceae)

(2016) Laura P. Lagomarsino et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multi-OSL-thermochronometry of feldspar

(2016) G.E. King et al.   Quaternary Geochronology

On the interest of penetration depth, canopy area and volume metrics to improve Lidar-based models of forest parameters

(2016) Cédric Véga et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Islands Terrestrial Biodiversity: A Review

(2016) S. Taylor et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Is plate tectonics needed to evolve technological species on exoplanets?

(2016) Robert J. Stern   Geoscience Frontiers

Miocene orographic uplift forces rapid hydrological change in the southern central Andes

(2016) Alexander Rohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiple origins of mountain life

(2015) Alexandre Antonelli   NATURE

Evolution of endemism on a young tropical mountain

(2015) Vincent S. F. T. Merckx et al.   NATURE

Rapid biological speciation driven by tectonic evolution in New Zealand

(2015) Dave Craw et al.   Nature Geoscience

The ubiquity of alpine plant radiations: from the Andes to the Hengduan Mountains

(2015) Colin E. Hughes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Palaeodiversity and formation counts: redundancy or bias?

(2015) Michael J. Benton   PALAEONTOLOGY

Crowdsourcing the identification of organisms: A case-study of iSpot

(2015) Jonathan Silvertown et al.   ZooKeys

Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

(2015) Paul R. Elsen et al.   Nature Climate Change

The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

(2014) Adrien Favre et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The drivers of tropical speciation

(2014) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   NATURE

Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

(2014) Trevor D. Price et al.   NATURE

As old as the mountains: the radiations of the Ericaceae

(2014) Orlando Schwery et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Specimen collection: An essential tool

(2014) L. A. Rocha et al.   SCIENCE

Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change

(2013) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Worldwide acceleration of mountain erosion under a cooling climate

(2013) Frédéric Herman et al.   NATURE

Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

(2013) Brody Sandel et al.   Nature Communications

Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

(2013) Santiago Madriñán et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

The Cenozoic climatic and topographic evolution of the western North American Cordillera

(2012) C. P. Chamberlain et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Miocene paleotopography of the Central Alps

(2012) M. Campani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Rapid Pliocene uplift of Timor

(2012) N. Nguyen et al.   GEOLOGY

Mountain biodiversity

(2012) Eva M. Spehn et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia

(2012) L. Parducci et al.   SCIENCE

Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings

(2011) Dov Corenblit et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Salmonid influences on rivers: A geomorphic fish tail

(2011) Paul DeVries   GEOMORPHOLOGY

History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology

(2011) P. D. Polly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Geophysical and Atmospheric Evolution of Habitable Planets

(2010) Helmut Lammer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Uniform erosion rates and relief amplitude during glacial cycles in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, as revealed from OSL-thermochronology

(2010) Frédéric Herman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Vegetation as a major conductor of geomorphic changes on the Earth surface: toward evolutionary geomorphology

(2009) Dov Corenblit et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Global analysis of bird elevational diversity

(2009) Christy M. McCain   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution

(2009) A. Antonelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The scramble for Africa: pan-temperate elements on the African high mountains

(2009) B. Gehrke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptive radiation, nonadaptive radiation, ecological speciation and nonecological speciation

(2009) Rebecca J. Rundell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages

(2009) Juan C Santos et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Origin, adaptive radiation and diversification of the Hawaiian lobeliads (Asterales: Campanulaceae)

(2008) T. J Givnish et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rise of the Andes

(2008) C. N. Garzione et al.   SCIENCE