What makes the Sino-Himalayan mountains the major diversity hotspots for pheasants?

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

Integrating occurrence data and expert maps for improved species range predictions

(2016) Cory Merow et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Ancestral range reconstruction of Galliformes: the effects of topology and taxon sampling

(2016) Ning Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Relative roles of ecological and energetic constraints, diversification rates and region history on global species richness gradients

(2015) Jonathan Belmaker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A molecular genetic time scale demonstrates Cretaceous origins and multiple diversification rate shifts within the order Galliformes (Aves)

(2015) R. Will Stein et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in 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

Evolutionary and ecological causes of species richness patterns in North American angiosperm trees

(2014) Hong Qian et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Understanding historical and current patterns of species richness of babblers along a 5000-m subtropical elevational gradient

(2014) Yongjie Wu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

(2014) Trevor D. Price et al.   NATURE

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Why does diversification slow down?

(2014) Daniel Moen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains

(2013) Yongjie Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Long-term isolation and stability explain high genetic diversity in the Eastern Himalaya

(2013) Yanhua Qu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Assessing Phylogenetic Relationships among Galliformes: A Multigene Phylogeny with Expanded Taxon Sampling in Phasianidae

(2013) Ning Wang et al.   PLoS One

ECOLOGICAL LIMITS ON DIVERSIFICATION OF THE HIMALAYAN CORE CORVOIDEA

(2012) Jonathan D. Kennedy et al.   EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World

(2012) B. G. Holt et al.   SCIENCE

The Role of Mountain Ranges in the Diversification of Birds

(2011) Jon Fjeldså et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Horizontal and elevational phylogeographic patterns of Himalayan and Southeast Asian forest passerines (Aves: Passeriformes)

(2011) Martin Päckert et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Causes of Plant Diversification in the Cape Biodiversity Hotspot of South Africa

(2011) Jan Schnitzler et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A definition of mountains and their bioclimatic belts for global comparisons of biodiversity data

(2011) Christian Körner et al.   Alpine Botany

SAM: a comprehensive application for Spatial Analysis in Macroecology

(2010) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Spiny frogs (Paini) illuminate the history of the Himalayan region and Southeast Asia

(2010) J. Che et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological Limits on Clade Diversification in Higher Taxa

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years

(2009) JULIEN LENEVEU et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Climate and history explain the species richness peak at mid-elevation forSchizothoraxfishes (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) distributed in the Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent regions

(2009) Jun Li et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Why do mountains support so many species of birds?

(2008) Adriana Ruggiero et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

(2008) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evolutionary constraints on regional faunas: whom, but not how many

(2008) Adam C. Algar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS