Altitude as environmental filtering influencing phylogenetic diversity and species richness of plants in tropical mountains

Ericaceous vegetation of the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia will prevail in the face of climate change

(2022) Yohannes O. Kidane et al.   Scientific Reports

Recent changes in high-mountain plant community functional composition in contrasting climate regimes

(2022) K. Steinbauer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Exploring the relationship between soil and plant evolutionary diversity in the Roraima table mountain OCBIL, Guayana Highlands

(2021) Prímula Viana Campos et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Impacts of Global Change on the Spatial Dynamics of Treeline in Venezuelan Andes

(2021) Eulogio Chacón-Moreno et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Global functional variation in alpine vegetation

(2021) Riccardo Testolin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands

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

The environmental filtering and the conservation of tropical dry forests in mountains in a global change scenario

(2021) Carlos Mario Galván Cisneros et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Upward shift and elevational range contractions of subtropical mountain plants in response to climate change

(2021) Kuiling Zu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg

(2021) Christian Brochmann et al.   Alpine Botany

Transcriptomes of Saussurea (Asteraceae) Provide Insights into High-Altitude Adaptation

(2021) Xu Zhang et al.   Plants-Basel

Variation in Alpine Plant Diversity and Soil Temperatures in Two Mountain Landscapes of South Patagonia

(2021) María Vanessa Lencinas et al.   Diversity-Basel

Local-scale environmental filtering shape plant taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in an isolated Amazonian tepui (Tepequém table mountain)

(2021) Prímula Viana Campos et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Temperature and soils predict the distribution of plant species along the Himalayan elevational gradient

(2021) Surya Kumar Maharjan et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Vegetation Assembly, Adaptive Strategies and Positive Interactions During Primary Succession in the Forefield of the Last Venezuelan Glacier

(2021) Luis D. Llambí et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

How do altitude and soil properties influence the taxonomic and phylogenetic structure and diversity of Brazilian páramo vegetation?

(2020) Markus Gastauer et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Early Evidence of Shifts in Alpine Summit Vegetation: A Case Study From Kashmir Himalaya

(2020) Maroof Hamid et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The correlation of phylogenetics, elevation and ploidy on the incidence of apomixis in Asteraceae in the European Alps

(2020) Luca Pegoraro et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

V.PhyloMaker: an R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

(2019) Yi Jin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Comparative leaf anatomy of Baccharis (Asteraceae) from high-altitude grasslands in Brazil: taxonomic and ecological implications

(2019) Thales Ornellas et al.   Botany

Modelling the effect of temperature changes on plant life-form distribution across a treeline ecotone in the tropical Andes

(2019) Alberto Arzac et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Distribution and Community Assembly of Trees Along an Andean Elevational Gradient

(2019) Samantha J. Worthy et al.   Plants-Basel

Tree abundance, richness, and phylogenetic diversity along an elevation gradient in the tropical forest of Diaoluo Mountain in Hainan, China

(2019) Zhi-Xin Zhu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm trees in local forest communities along latitudinal and elevational gradients in eastern North America

(2019) Hong Qian et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Thermal niche traits of high alpine plant species and communities across the tropical Andes and their vulnerability to global warming

(2019) Francisco Cuesta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant functional diversity in tropical Andean páramos

(2019) Fermin Rada et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The effect of elevation on species richness in tropical forests depends on the considered lifeform: results from an East African mountain forest

(2019) Legrand Cirimwami et al.   TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Hotspots within a global biodiversity hotspot - areas of endemism are associated with high mountain ranges

(2018) Jalil Noroozi et al.   Scientific Reports

Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

(2018) Belén Fadrique et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic diversity, structure and diversification patterns of endemic plants along the elevational gradient in the Eastern Himalaya

(2018) Kumar Manish et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

(2017) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Using phylogeny and functional traits for assessing community assembly along environmental gradients: A deterministic process driven by elevation

(2017) Jinshi Xu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Species diversity and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a semi-arid mountain in China

(2017) He Zhao et al.   PeerJ

Soil and altitude drive diversity and functioning of BrazilianPáramos(campo de altitude)

(2016) Andreza Viana Neri et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Environmental filtering of eudicot lineages underlies phylogenetic clustering in tropical South American flooded forests

(2016) Ana M. Aldana et al.   OECOLOGIA

A global inventory of mountains for bio-geographical applications

(2016) Christian Körner et al.   Alpine Botany

Soil and altitude drive diversity and functioning of BrazilianPáramos(campo de altitude)

(2016) Andreza Viana Neri et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Reconciling ecological and phytogeographical spatial boundaries to clarify the limits of the montane and alpine regions of sub-Sahelian Africa

(2015) Clinton Carbutt et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Importance of Biotic vs. Abiotic Drivers of Local Plant Community Composition Along Regional Bioclimatic Gradients

(2015) Kari Klanderud et al.   PLoS One

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure and phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm assemblages in forests along an elevational gradient in Changbaishan, China

(2014) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in tropical tree assemblages along regional-scale environmental gradients in northwest South America

(2014) Sebastián González-Caro et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

The latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis

(2014) A. J. Kerkhoff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients

(2014) E. Laliberte et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal functional changes in alpine summit vegetation are driven by increases in shrubs and graminoids

(2014) Susanna Venn et al.   AoB Plants

Interactions, Environmental Sorting and Chance: Phylostructure of a Tropical Forest Assembly

(2013) Markus Gastauer et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Island biogeography of tropical alpine floras

(2013) Petr Sklenář et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Consistent patterns of elevational change in tree taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity across Malesian mountain forests

(2013) Heike Culmsee et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Elevational Gradient of Vascular Plant Species Richness and Endemism in Crete – The Effect of Post-Isolation Mountain Uplift on a Continental Island System

(2013) Panayiotis Trigas et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) Yasmeen Telwala et al.   PLoS One

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

Phylogenetic plant community structure along elevation is lineage specific

(2013) Charlotte Ndiribe et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2013) Santiago Madriñán et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Climate change in mountains: a review of elevation-dependent warming and its possible causes

(2012) Imtiaz Rangwala et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

(2012) Christopher Baraloto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

(2011) Cyrille Violle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients

(2011) Marisol Toledo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity

(2010) Antonin Machac et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Upslope migration of Andean trees

(2010) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species diversity along an altitudinal gradient of Bhabha Valley in western Himalaya

(2008) Amit Chawla et al.   Journal of Mountain Science