Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects

X Wang, Y Wang, Q Li, ZJ Tseng, GT Takeuchi… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Due to its lofty height, the Tibetan Plateau features some of the harshest environments in the
world with extreme coldness, low oxygen, high UV radiation, and in places, severe aridity …

Geographic variation in range size and beta diversity of groundwater crustaceans: insights from habitats with low thermal seasonality

M Zagmajster, D Eme, C Fišer, D Galassi… - Global ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Three broad mechanisms have been proposed to explain geographic variation in
species range size: habitat area/heterogeneity, climate seasonality and long‐term climate …

The global distribution of angiosperm genome size is shaped by climate

P Bureš, TL Elliott, P Veselý, P Šmarda… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms, which inhabit diverse environments across all continents, exhibit significant
variation in genome sizes, making them an excellent model system for examining …

Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic

F Cox, KK Newsham, R Bol, JAJ Dungait… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctica's extreme environment and geographical isolation offers a useful platform for
testing the relative roles of environmental selection and dispersal barriers influencing fungal …

Extending Janzen's hypothesis to temperate regions: a test using subterranean ecosystems

S Mammola, E Piano, F Malard, P Vernon… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Janzen's hypothesis (1967; American Naturalist) predicts that tropical habitats with
reduced thermal seasonality would select for species with narrow thermal tolerance, thereby …

Fungal elevational Rapoport pattern from a High Mountain in Japan

MC Ogwu, K Takahashi, K Dong, HK Song… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Little is known of how fungal distribution ranges vary with elevation. We studied fungal
diversity and community composition from 740 to 2940 m above sea level on Mt. Norikura …

Subterranean biodiversity patterns from global to regional scales

M Zagmajster, F Malard, D Eme, DC Culver - Cave ecology, 2018 - Springer
In the last two decades, there has been a substantial progress in the availability of records
for several subterranean taxa, as well as in map** and statistical modeling of biodiversity …

Unifying latitudinal gradients in range size and richness across marine and terrestrial systems

A Tomašových, JD Kennedy… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many marine and terrestrial clades show similar latitudinal gradients in species richness, but
opposite gradients in range size—on land, ranges are the smallest in the tropics, whereas in …

The latitudinal gradient of shell ornament–A case study from Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopods

H Wu, GR Shi, Y Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Although there have been many studies of biological patterns along latitude, less attention
has been paid on how latitude might affect the large-scale spatial patterns of ornament …

Post‐Pleistocene dispersal explains the Rapoport effect in North American salamanders

T Radomski, SR Kuchta, KH Kozak - Journal of Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims In many taxa, the latitudinal span of species' geographic ranges are positively
correlated with median latitude (the Rapoport effect). This correlation is frequently explained …