Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Understanding diversity patterns along environmental gradients and their underlying
mechanisms is a major topic in current biodiversity research. In this study, we investigate for …

Background: Biodiversity is perceived to decline from lowlands towards mountain peaks and
away from the Equator towards the Poles, but supporting data for most groups of organisms …

Altitudinal changes of composition and richness of montane plant assemblages are
complex, depending on the taxonomic group and gradient conditions, with different factors …

Elevation gradients in tropical forests have been studied but the analysis of patterns
displayed by species richness and elevation have received little attention. We examined …

Aim In order to investigate the relative importance of ecological (habitat specialization) and
biogeographical (speciation, geographical dispersal limitation) processes as causes of non …

Terrestrial herbs are important elements of tropical forests; however, there is a lack of
research on their diversity patterns and how they respond to different intensities of forest …

Explaining the diversity and distribution of tree taxa in the isolated tropical mountain forests
(TMF) of the Malesian archipelago remains one of the great challenges of tropical …

The species richness–productivity relationship (SRPR), by which the species richness of
habitats or ecosystems is related to the productivity of the ecosystem or the taxon, has been …

Understory plants are important components of forest ecosystems and play a crucial role in
regulating community structures, function realization, and community succession. However …