Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: Current knowledge and future perspectives

New precise dating of the India‐Asia collision in the Tibetan Himalaya at 61 Ma

(2021) Wei An et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A multi-faceted comparative perspective on elevational beta-diversity: the patterns and their causes

(2021) Yuanbao Du et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Maximum levels of global phylogenetic diversity efficiently capture plant services for humankind

(2021) Rafael Molina-Venegas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands

(2021) Hong Qian et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Population subdivision and hybridization in a species complex of Gentiana in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2020) Peng-Cheng Fu et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Pedicularis khoiyangii (Orobanchaceae), a new species from the Eastern Himalaya, India

(2020) DIPANKAR BORAH et al.   Phytotaxa

Geological and Climatic Factors Affect the Population Genetic Connectivity in Mirabilis himalaica (Nyctaginaceae): Insight From Phylogeography and Dispersal Corridors in the Himalaya-Hengduan Biodiversity Hotspot

(2020) Hum Kala Rana et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Building climate change resilience by using a versatile toolkit for local governments and communities in rural Himalaya

(2020) Lance C. Heath et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Latest Neogene monsoon of the Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India, as revealed by fossil leaf architectural signatures

(2020) Taposhi Hazra et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Patterns of plant communities along vertical gradient in Dhauladhar Mountains in Lesser Himalayas in North-Western India

(2020) Mustaqeem Ahmad et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Oligocene deformation of the Chuandian terrane in the SE margin of the Tibetan Plateau related to the extrusion of Indochina

(2020) Shihu Li et al.   TECTONICS

Why the ‘Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ is a myth

(2020) Robert A Spicer et al.   National Science Review

Contrasting Floristic Diversity of the Hengduan Mountains, the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Sensu Stricto in China

(2020) Haibin Yu et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest

(2020) Zhongyu Xiong et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ancient orogenic and monsoon-driven assembly of the world’s richest temperate alpine flora

(2020) Wen-Na Ding et al.   SCIENCE

Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient

(2020) Andy R. Griffiths et al.   BIOTROPICA

Evolutionary principles and genetic considerations for guiding conservation interventions under climate change

(2020) Juan D. Gaitán‐Espitia et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The relationship between elevation and seed-plant species richness in the Mt. Namjagbarwa region (Eastern Himalayas) and its underlying determinants

(2020) Lu Sun et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Leaf physiognomy records the Miocene intensification of the South Asia Monsoon

(2020) Harshita Bhatia et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

What drives biodiversity patterns? Using long‐term multidisciplinary data to discern centennial‐scale change

(2020) Jessie Woodbridge et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tree species composition and diversity in montane forests of Garhwal Himalaya in relation to environmental and soil properties

(2020) Dinesh Singh Rawat et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Type and intensity of surrounding human land use, not local environment, shape genetic structure of a native grassland plant

(2020) Sarah L. Emel et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical “Shangri-La” ecosystem in central Tibet

(2020) Tao Su et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Individualistic evolutionary responses of Central African rain forest plants to Pleistocene climatic fluctuations

(2020) Andrew J. Helmstetter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drivers of elevational richness peaks, evaluated for trees in the east Himalaya

(2019) Suresh K. Rana et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Upward elevation and northwest range shifts for alpine Meconopsis species in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains region

(2019) Xie He et al.   Ecology and Evolution

How will forest fires impact the distribution of endemic plants in the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot?

(2019) Vishwas Chitale et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Climate change-induced range shift of the endemic epiphytic lichen Lobaria pindarensis in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region

(2019) Shiva DEVKOTA et al.   LICHENOLOGIST

Geophysical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to drive phylogenetic dispersion in angiosperm assemblages along the longest elevational gradient in the world

(2019) Hong Qian et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Forest community assembly is driven by different strata‐dependent mechanisms along an elevational gradient

(2019) Ya‐Huang Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geo-climatic factors influence the population genetic connectivity of Incarvillea arguta (Bignoniaceae) in the Himalaya Hengduan Mountains biodiversity hotspot

(2019) Santosh Kumar Rana et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years

(2019) J. M. Maurer et al.   Science Advances

Plant evolutionary assembly along elevational belts at Mt. Kilimanjaro: Using phylogenetics to asses biodiversity threats under climate change

(2019) Rafael Molina-Venegas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

An ecological barrier between the Himalayas and the Hengduan Mountains maintains the disjunct distribution of Roscoea

(2019) De‐Bao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Origins of global mountain plant biodiversity: Testing the ‘mountain‐geobiodiversity hypothesis’

(2019) Alexandra N. Muellner‐Riehl et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant species richness across the Himalaya driven by evolutionary history and current climate

(2019) Suresh K. Rana et al.   Ecosphere

Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

(2019) Alex Farnsworth et al.   Science Advances

A global synthesis of biodiversity responses to glacier retreat

(2019) Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Farmers’ understanding of climate change in Nepal Himalayas: important determinants and implications for developing adaptation strategies

(2019) Basanta Paudel et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Spatiotemporal landscape genetics: Investigating ecology and evolution through space and time

(2019) Lindsey E. Fenderson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The composition of the middle Miocene (15 Ma) Namling paleoflora, South Central Tibet, in the context of other Tibetan and Himalayan Floras

(2019) Guo Shuang-Xing et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Shifts in plant distributions in response to climate warming in a biodiversity hotspot, the Hengduan Mountains

(2018) Qianlong Liang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation in the wide elevation range of the alpine plant Arabis alpina

(2018) Pierre de Villemereuil et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Integrating a comprehensive DNA barcode reference library with a global map of yews (Taxus L.) for forensic identification

(2018) Jie Liu et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Global patterns of protection of elevational gradients in mountain ranges

(2018) Paul R. Elsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic diversity patterns in Himalayan forests reveal evidence for environmental filtering of distinct lineages

(2018) Stephanie Shooner et al.   Ecosphere

Westwards and northwards dispersal of Triosteum himalayanum (Caprifoliaceae) from the Hengduan Mountains region based on chloroplast DNA phylogeography

(2018) Hai-rui Liu et al.   PeerJ

Uplift, Climate and Biotic Changes at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in Southeast Tibet

(2018) Tao Su et al.   National Science Review

Recent Increases in Wildfires in the Himalayas and Surrounding Regions Detected in Central Tibetan Ice Core Records

(2018) Chao You et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Impact of climate change on the distribution range and niche dynamics of Himalayan birch, a typical treeline species in Himalayas

(2018) Maroof Hamid et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China

(2018) Li-Min Lu et al.   NATURE

Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

(2018) Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.   NATURE

Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   Nature Geoscience

Understanding the dynamics in distribution of invasive alien plant species under predicted climate change in Western Himalaya

(2018) Sunil Thapa et al.   PLoS One

Prioritizing Conservation of Medicinal Flora in the Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot: An Integrated Ecological and Socioeconomic Approach

(2018) Bilal A Tali et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

A fine-scale state-space model to understand drivers of forest fires in the Himalayan foothills

(2018) Karthik K. Murthy et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya

(2018) Mahasin Ali Khan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Protect Third Pole's fragile ecosystem

(2018) Jie Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Geophysical upheavals and evolutionary diversification of plant species in the Himalaya

(2018) Kumar Manish et al.   PeerJ

Quantifying the rise of the Himalaya orogen and implications for the South Asian monsoon

(2017) Lin Ding et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleogene monsoons across India and South China: Drivers of biotic change

(2017) Robert Spicer et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Elevational seed plants richness patterns in Bhutan, Eastern Himalaya

(2017) Jürgen Kluge et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Warm-cold colonization: response of oaks to uplift of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains

(2017) Hong-Hu Meng et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impact of a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius on Asia’s glaciers

(2017) P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink et al.   NATURE

Evidence for diversification of Calophyllum L. (Calophyllaceae) in the Neogene Siwalik forests of eastern Himalaya

(2017) Mahasin A. Khan et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Testing the effect of the Himalayan mountains as a physical barrier to gene flow in Hippophae tibetana Schlect. (Elaeagnaceae)

(2017) La Qiong et al.   PLoS One

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

A modern pollen–climate dataset from the Darjeeling area, eastern Himalaya: Assessing its potential for past climate reconstruction

(2017) Ruby Ghosh et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A new Himalayan crisis? Exploring transformative resilience pathways

(2017) Poshendra Satyal et al.   Environmental Development

Modelling the potential distribution of Betula utilis in the Himalaya

(2017) Maria Bobrowski et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Predicting distribution of major forest tree species to potential impacts of climate change in the central Himalayan region

(2016) Anusheema Chakraborty et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Evolutionary diversification of alpine ginger reflects the early uplift of the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau and rapid extrusion of Indochina

(2016) Jian-Li Zhao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

Speciation in a keystone plant genus is driven by elevation: a case study in New Guinean Ficus

(2016) S. T. Segar et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Demographic history of speciation in aSenecioaltitudinal hybrid zone on Mt. Etna

(2016) Dmitry A. Filatov et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic consequences of Quaternary climatic oscillations in the Himalayas: Primula tibetica as a case study based on restriction site-associated DNA sequencing

(2016) Guangpeng Ren et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Transverse Alpine Speciation Driven by Glaciation

(2016) Graham P. Wallis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biotic interchange between the Indian subcontinent and mainland Asia through time

(2016) Sebastian Klaus et al.   Nature Communications

Range expansion during the Pleistocene drove morphological radiation of the fir genus (Abies, Pinaceae) in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Himalayas

(2015) Yanling Peng et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Evolutionary history of the subnival flora of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains: first insights from comparative phylogeography of four perennial herbs

(2015) Dong Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Elevational speciation in action? Restricted gene flow associated with adaptive divergence across an altitudinal gradient

(2015) W. C. Funk et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution of endemism on a young tropical mountain

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

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

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

Intraspecific differentiation ofPleurospermum hookeri(Apiaceae), and its interspecific relationships with two close relatives in the genusPleurospermum

(2015) Xue Bai et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

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

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

Refugial isolation and range expansions drive the genetic structure of Oxyria sinensis (Polygonaceae) in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains

(2015) Lihua Meng et al.   Scientific Reports

Combining the least cost path method with population genetic data and species distribution models to identify landscape connectivity during the late Quaternary in Himalayan hemlock

(2015) Haibin Yu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity hotspots: A shortcut for a more complicated concept

(2015) Christian Marchese   Global Ecology and Conservation

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

(2014) Adrien Favre et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Dancing on the Roof of the World: Ecological Transformation of the Himalayan Landscape

(2014) Maharaj K. Pandit et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Low genetic diversity and high inbreeding of the endangered yews in Central Himalaya: implications for conservation of their highly fragmented populations

(2014) Ram C. Poudel et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The Andean-type Gangdese Mountains: Paleoelevation record from the Paleocene–Eocene Linzhou Basin

(2014) Lin Ding et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ensemble forecast of climate suitability for the Trans-Himalayan Nyctaginaceae species

(2014) Sailesh Ranjitkar et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Effects of topography and land use on woody plant species composition and beta diversity in an arid Trans-Himalayan landscape, Nepal

(2014) Shishir Paudel et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Altitudinal gradients, plant hybrid zones and evolutionary novelty

(2014) R. J. Abbott et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau Uplift Drives Divergence of Polyploid Poppies: Meconopsis Viguier (Papaveraceae)

(2014) Hongyan Xie et al.   PLoS One

Nature and timing of Quaternary glaciation in the Himalayan–Tibetan orogen

(2014) Lewis A. Owen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Consistent increase in High Asia's runoff due to increasing glacier melt and precipitation

(2014) A. F. Lutz et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Miocene elevation of Mount Everest

(2013) Aude Gébelin et al.   GEOLOGY

Ecological speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird?

(2013) L. M. Caro et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of the Sino-Himalayan endemic genus Cyananthus (Campanulaceae) and implications for the evolution of its sexual system

(2013) Zhuo Zhou et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Geological and ecological factors drive cryptic speciation of yews in a biodiversity hotspot

(2013) Jie Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate-Induced Elevational Range Shifts and Increase in Plant Species Richness in a Himalayan Biodiversity Epicentre

(2013) Yasmeen Telwala et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeographic Evidence for a Link of Species Divergence of Ephedra in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Regions to the Miocene Asian Aridification

(2013) Ai-Li Qin et al.   PLoS One

Will plant movements keep up with climate change?

(2013) Richard T. Corlett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic clustering and overdispersion for alpine plants along elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwest China

(2013) Xin-Hui LI et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

The rise of the Himalaya enforced the diversification of SE Asian ferns by altering the monsoon regimes

(2012) Li Wang et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

What controlled Mid–Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia? — Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review

(2012) Yunfa Miao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Initial India-Asia Continental Collision and Foreland Basin Evolution in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet: Evidence from Stratigraphy and Paleontology

(2012) Qinghai Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Mountain biodiversity

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

Pre-monsoon precipitation signal in tree rings of timberline Betula utilis in the central Himalayas

(2012) Binod Dawadi et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers

(2012) T. Bolch et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogeographic studies of plants in China: Advances in the past and directions in the future

(2012) Jian-Quan LIU et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients

(2011) Kamal P. Acharya et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

On the origin of the woody buckwheat Fagopyrum tibeticum (=Parapteropyrum tibeticum) in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

(2011) Xinmin Tian et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Glacial survival east and west of the ‘Mekong–Salween Divide’ in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains region as revealed by AFLPs and cpDNA sequence variation in Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Berberidaceae)

(2011) Yong Li et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Plant molecular phylogeography in China and adjacent regions: Tracing the genetic imprints of Quaternary climate and environmental change in the world’s most diverse temperate flora

(2011) Ying-Xiong Qiu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Climate Change, Keystone Predation, and Biodiversity Loss

(2011) C. D. G. Harley   SCIENCE

Floral diversity during Plio-Pleistocene Siwalik sedimentation (Kimin Formation) in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and its palaeoclimatic significance

(2011) Mahasin Ali Khan et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) Peter Molnar et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Plant recolonization in the Himalaya from the southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Geographical isolation contributed to high population differentiation

(2010) Yu-Zhi Cun et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating

(2010) William R. Boos et al.   NATURE

Taxonomic and biogeographic patterns in the native and alien woody flora of Kashmir Himalaya, India

(2010) Anzar A. Khuroo et al.   NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Evosystem services: an evolutionary perspective on the links between biodiversity and human well-being

(2010) Daniel P Faith et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review

(2009) Xuefeng Cui et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods

(2009) JIANCHU XU et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Range shifts of Potentilla fruticosa on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during glacial and interglacial periods revealed by chloroplast DNA sequence variation

(2009) A Shimono et al.   HEREDITY

Repeated Range Expansion and Glacial Endurance ofPotentilla glabra(Rosaceae) in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Liu-Yang Wang et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Tree endurance on the Tibetan Plateau marks the world’s highest known tree line of the Last Glacial Maximum

(2009) Lars Opgenoorth et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Artificial Dispersal as a Restoration Tool in Meadows: Sowing or Planting?

(2009) Lotta Wallin et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Quaternary glaciation of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

(2008) Lewis A. Owen et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Phylogeny and biogeographic diversification of Maianthemum (Ruscaceae: Polygonatae)

(2008) Ying Meng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION