Ethiopia is located in the center of the biodiversity hotspots for the Horn of Africa and the
Eastern Afro-montane regions, home to numerous endemic plant species. However, due to …

How communities assemble is a central and fundamental question in ecology. However, it
has been mired by conflicting conclusions about whether community assembly is driven by …

Despite the increasing interest in elevational patterns in biodiversity, few studies have
investigated variations in life forms and biogeographical composition, especially in the …

It was hypothesized that multiple environmental factors influence distribution and
abundance of plant species in different vegetation layers of the forest ecosystem=. Here, we …

Simple Summary Elevation has a significant impact on the distribution of plant species.
However, the structure and distribution patterns of Himalayan vegetation are poorly …

Grazing exclusion by fencing is the principal option to restore degraded grassland, but its
effects on recovery and succession of vegetation are not clear, especially in high mountain …

Mountain forests are plant diversity hotspots, but changing climate and increasing forest
disturbances will likely lead to far‐reaching plant community change. Projecting future …

Abstract Home gardens (HGs) in North-East India are the oldest form of land use practice
next to shifting cultivation. Every garden is a unique entity in terms of component …

The how and why of the spatial variation in biodiversity is one of the fundamental topics in
biogeography research, but accurate insights require the incorporation of phylogenetic …

Plant community assembly is the outcome of long-term evolutionary events (evident as
taxonomic diversity; TD) and immediate adaptive fitness (functional diversity; FD); a balance …