What makes the Sino-Himalayan mountains the major diversity hotspots for pheasants? - Cai, Tianlong; Fjeldså, Jon; Wu, Yongjie; Shao, Shimiao; Chen, Youhua; Quan, Qing; Li, Xinhai; Song, Gang; Qu, Yanhua; Qiao, Gexia; Lei, Fumin (Journal of biogeography, 2018)
Keywords: Africa; Biodiversity; Biodiversity hot spots; biogeography; Colonization; diversification rate; Diversity drivers; Ecology; energetic constraints; Evolution; Mathematical models; Model testing; Mountains; multiple colonizations; Net Primary Productivity; niche diversity; Niches; Oligocene; Oligocene epoch; Phasianidae; pheasants; Phylogeny; primary productivity; Productivity; Sino‐Himalayas; Speciation; Species diversity; Species richness; structural equation modeling; time‐for‐speciation effect; Himalaya Mountains; Africa