Southeast Asian Dipterocarp origin and diversification driven by Africa-India floristic interchange

M Bansal, RJ Morley, SK Nagaraju, S Dutta, AK Mishra… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The evolution and diversification of ancient megathermal angiosperm lineages with Africa-
India origins in Asian tropical forests is poorly understood because of the lack of reliable …

Assembly and division of the South and South-East Asian flora in relation to tectonics and climate change

RJ Morley - Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2018 - cambridge.org
The main phases of plant dispersal into, and out of the South-East Asian region are
discussed in relation to plate tectonics and changing climates. The South-East Asian area …

The magnificent Dipterocarps: précis for an Epitaph?

PS Ashton, RJ Morley, J Heckenhauer, V Prasad - Kew Bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Medieval Arab traders, bartering for forest products with indigenous tribes along the
unending coastlines of the Malesian archipelago were first to recognise the value of the …

Beyond fortress conservation: the long-term integration of natural and social science research for an inclusive conservation practice in India

ND Rai, MS Devy, T Ganesh, R Ganesan, SR Setty… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The separation of people from their landscapes undergirds conservation action, especially
in the global south. Such a 'fortress conservation'approach is based on the flawed idea that …

Glaciations, gradients, and geography: multiple drivers of diversification of bush frogs in the Western Ghats Escarpment

SP Vijayakumar, RC Menezes… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The historical processes underlying high diversity in tropical biodiversity hotspots like the
Western Ghats of Peninsular India remain poorly understood. We sampled bush frogs on 13 …

Eocene out-of-India dispersal of Asian dipterocarps

S Dutta, SM Tripathi, M Mallick, RP Mathews… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Dipterocarpaceae, a well known and economically important family of trees of the
tropical rain forests of Asia, comprise over 470 species. These angiosperm trees contribute …

Diversifying on the Ark: multiple new endemic lineages of dwarf geckos from the Western Ghats provide insights into the systematics and biogeography of South Asian …

S Pal, ZA Mirza, P Dsouza, K Shanker - Zoological Research, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The highly speciose gekkonid genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 is polyphyletic, with three
distantly related and geographically isolated clades from Africa, South Asia (SA), and …

Granite boulders act as deep‐time climate refugia: A Miocene divergent clade of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mysore …

I Agarwal, T Thackeray, S Pal… - Journal of Zoological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a divergent clade and three new rupicolous species of dwarf geckos of the
genus Cnemaspis from the Mysore Plateau, southern India. Cnemaspis bangarasp. nov., C …

Palynofacies and sedimentology-based high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the lignite-bearing muddy coastal deposits (early Eocene) in the Vastan Lignite Mine …

V Prasad, IB Singh, S Bajpai, R Garg, B Thakur… - Facies, 2013 - Springer
Geological records of early Paleogene warming are rare in low latitudinal regions. The
Indian subcontinent preserves records of this global event on western and eastern margins …

古新世-始新世极热事件研究进展

陈祚伶, 丁仲礼 - 第四纪研究, 2011 - dsjyj.com.cn
古新世-始新世极热事件(PETM 事件) 是发生在早新生代的一次极端碳循环扰动和全球变暖事件,
主要表现为大气CO2 浓度快速增加和全球增温. 研究显示该时期全球地表温度增加了5~ 6℃ …