Restricted dispersal and inbreeding in a high‐elevation bird across the 'sky islands' of the European Alps

F Ceresa, M Brambilla, L Kvist, S Vitulano… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim High‐elevation specialist species are threatened by climate change and habitat loss,
and their distributions are becoming increasingly reduced and fragmented. In such a …

Microgeographical adaptation corresponds to elevational distributions of congeneric montane grasshoppers

S Yadav, AJ Stow, RY Dudaniec - Molecular Ecology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation can occur at small spatial scales relative to the dispersal capacity of
species. Alpine ecosystems have sharp environmental clines that offer an opportunity to …

An alpine grasshopper radiation older than the mountains, on Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (Southern Alps) of Aotearoa (New Zealand)

EM Koot, M Morgan-Richards, SA Trewick - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In New Zealand, 13 flightless species of endemic grasshopper are associated with
alpine habitats and freeze tolerance. We examined the phylogenetic relationships of the …

Scale‐dependent thermal tolerance variation in Australian mountain grasshoppers

RA Slatyer, MA Nash, AA Hoffmann - Ecography, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Physiological variation among and within species is thought to play a key role in determining
distribution patterns across environmental gradients. We tested inter‐and intraspecific …

Digging deep: a revised phylogeny of Australian burrowing cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae, Geoscapheinae) confirms extensive nonmonophyly and provides …

PG Beasley‐Hall, HA Rose, J Walker… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Soil‐burrowing cockroaches (Blaberidae: Geoscapheinae) are large insects
endemic to Australia. Originally thought to represent a monophyletic group, these enigmatic …

Allopatric divergence drives the genetic structuring of an endangered alpine endemic lizard with a sky‐island distribution

ZS Atkins, MD Amor, N Clemann… - Animal …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is causing a world‐wide reduction of alpine habitat, leaving
many high‐elevation species restricted to sky‐islands and vulnerable to extinction …

Elevational partitioning in species distribution, abundance and body size of Australian alpine grasshoppers (Kosciuscola)

S Yadav, A Stow, RY Dudaniec - Austral Ecology, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the physical environment with elevation can influence species
distributions and their morphological traits. In mountainous regions, steep temperature …

Spatial patterns of genetic diversity among Australian alpine flora communities revealed by comparative phylogenomics

N Bell, PC Griffin, AA Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim The alpine region of mainland Australia is one of the world's 187 biodiversity hotspots.
Genetic analyses of Australian alpine fauna indicate high levels of endemism on fine spatial …

Persisting in a glaciated landscape: Pleistocene microrefugia evidenced by the tree wētā Hemideina maori in central South Island, New Zealand

KJ King, DM Lewis, JM Waters… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Repeated cycles of Pleistocene glaciation have influenced phylogeographic
structure of taxa on New Zealand's South Island. Many taxa became restricted to refugia at …

A complex history of introgression and vicariance in a threatened montane skink (Pseudemoia cryodroma) across an Australian sky island system

ML Haines, D Stuart-Fox, J Sumner, N Clemann… - Conservation …, 2017‏ - Springer
Species endemic to sky island systems are isolated to mountain peaks and high elevation
plateaux both geographically and ecologically, making them particularly vulnerable to the …