Biodiversity cradles and museums segregating within hotspots of endemism

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Vol. 289; no. 1981; p. 20221102
• Main Authors: Sonne, Jesper, Dalsgaard, Bo, Borregaard, Michael K., Kennedy, Jonathan, Fjeldså, Jon, Rahbek, Carsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 31.08.2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Ecology; Ecosystem; Forests; Museums; Phylogeny; Andes; biodiversity; range size; maintenance; hummingbirds; speciation

The immense concentrations of vertebrate species in tropical mountains remain a prominent but unexplained pattern in biogeography. A long-standing hypothesis suggests that montane biodiversity hotspots result from endemic species aggregating within ecologically stable localities. Here, the persisten...