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Data from: Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant community diversity on mountain summits across the tropical Andes
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Data from: Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the ‘mountain passes are higher in the tropics’ hypothesis
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Data from: Evolution of woody life form on tropical mountains in the tribe Spermacoceae (Rubiaceae)
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Data from: Fire and grazing controlling a tropical tree line: Effects of long‐term grazing exclusion in Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
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Data from: Delimiting tropical mountain ecoregions for conservation
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Data from: Tropical tree species diversity in a mountain system in southern Mexico: local and regional patterns and determinant factors
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Data from: Abundance and morphometry changes across the high-mountain lake-size gradient in the tropical Andes of Southern Ecuador
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Data from: Microgeography, not just latitude, drives climate overlap on mountains from tropical to polar ecosystems
<p class="CxSpFirst"><span>An extension of the climate variability hypothesis is that relatively stable climate, such as that of the tropics, induces distinct thermal bands across elevation that render dispersal over tropical mountains difficult compared to temperate mountains. Yet, ecosystems are not thermally static in space-time, especially at small scales, which might render some mountains greater thermal isolators than others. Here, we provide an extensive investigation of temperature drivers from fine to coarse scales, and demonstrate that the degree of overlap in temperatures at high and low elevations on mountains is driven by more than just absolute mountain height and latitude. We compiled a database of 29 mountains spanning 6 continents to characterize "thermal overlap" by vertically stratified microhabitats, biomes, and owing to seasonal changes in foliage, demonstrating via mixed-effects modeling that micro- and mesogeography more strongly influence thermal overlap than macrogeography. Impressively, an increase of one meter of vertical microhabitat height generates an increase in overlap equivalent to a 5.26° change in latitude. In addition, forested mountains have reduced overlap – 149% lower – relative to non-forested mountains. We provide evidence in support of a climate hypothesis that emphasizes microgeography as a determinant of dispersal, demographics, and behavior, thereby refining classical theory of macroclimate variability as a prominent driver of biogeography.</span></p> <p class="CxSpMiddle"> </p>
FIGURE 5 in Archaeococcoid scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the tropical high mountains of the Andean Cordillera, South America
FIGURE 5. Adult male of Paramoandesia colombiensis Foldi n. sp. For abbreviations, see table I.
Avian seed dispersal may be insufficient for plants to track future temperature change on tropical mountains - data
<span><b>Abstract</b></span> <p><strong>Aim</strong>: Climate change causes species' range shifts globally. Terrestrial plant species often lag behind temperature shifts, and it is unclear to what extent animal-dispersed plants can track climate change. Here, we estimate the ability of bird-dispersed plant species to track future temperature change on a tropical mountain.</p> <p><b>Location: </b>Tropical elevational gradient (500–3500 m a.s.l.) in the Manú biosphere reserve, Peru</p> <p><b>Time period: </b>1960–1990 to 2061–2080</p> <p><b>Taxa: </b>Fleshy-fruited plants, avian frugivores</p> <p><b>Methods: </b>Using simulations based on the functional traits of avian frugivores and fruiting plants, we quantified the number of long-distance dispersal (LDD) events that woody plant species would require to track projected temperature shifts on a tropical mountain by the year 2070 under different greenhouse gas emission scenarios (RCP 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5). We applied this approach to 343 bird-dispersed woody plant species.</p> <p><b>Results:</b> Our simulations reveal that bird-dispersed plants differ in their climate-tracking ability, with large-fruited and canopy plants exhibiting a higher climate-tracking ability. Our simulations also suggest that even under scenarios of strong and intermediate mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (RCP 2.6 and 4.5), sufficient upslope dispersal would require several LDD events by 2070, which is unlikely for the majority of woody plant species. Furthermore, the ability of plant species to track future temperature changes increased in simulations with a low degree of trait matching between plants and birds, suggesting that plants in generalised seed-dispersal systems may be more resilient to climate change.</p> <p><b>Main conclusion:</b> Our study illustrates how plant and animal functional traits can inform predictive models of species dispersal and range shifts under climate change and suggests that the biodiversity of tropical mountain ecosystems is highly vulnerable to future warming. The increasing availability of functional trait data for plants and animals globally will allow parameterisation of similar models for many other seed-dispersal systems.</p>
Figure 9 from: Kohlmann B, Solís Á, Alvarado G (2019) Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity. ZooKeys 881: 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.881.38026
Figure 9 A cytochrome c-oxidase I (COI–5P) mitochondrial DNA sequence-based BOLD taxon ID tree of the nearest species of O. humboldti sp. nov.
Figure 3 from: Kohlmann B, Solís Á, Alvarado G (2019) Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity. ZooKeys 881: 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.881.38026
Figure 3 Aedeagui of aO. humboldti sp. nov. bU. bonplandi sp. nov. c brachypterous wing of O. humboldti sp. nov.
Figure 8 from: Kohlmann B, Solís Á, Alvarado G (2019) Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity. ZooKeys 881: 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.881.38026
Figure 8 Map showing Costa Rican scarabaeine endemic numbers as distributed by life-zones (taken from Kohlmann et al. 2007).
Figure 7 from: Kohlmann B, Solís Á, Alvarado G (2019) Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity. ZooKeys 881: 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.881.38026
Figure 7 Present day distribution of Onthophagus humboldti sp. nov. (blue dot) and O. micropterus (red dot) and lines indicating proposed localities (rhombi) depressed by 1500 m (14 km in straight line) generated by the last glacial maximum, ~25–23 ka, in the Cordillera de Talamanca. All mountain systems are 150 m lower than present day height and an estimated sea level descent of 120 m is depicted. Dotted black lines represent present-day sea levels.
Figure 5 from: Kohlmann B, Solís Á, Alvarado G (2019) Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity. ZooKeys 881: 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.881.38026
Figure 5 Known distribution of O. humboldti sp. nov. (orange circle) and U. bonplandi sp. nov. (red triangle). The distribution of the proposed sister species of these new taxa is also depicted, O. micropterus (blue rhombus) and U. dybasi (black square).
Figure 2 from: Kohlmann B, Solís Á, Alvarado G (2019) Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity. ZooKeys 881: 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.881.38026
Figure 2 Drawings of the clypeal horn of aO. humboldti sp. nov. and bO. micropterus; pronotum of cO. humboldti sp. nov. and dO. micropterus; head of eO. humboldti sp. nov. and fO. micropterus; and elytral apex of gU. bonplandi sp. nov. and hU. dybasi. Scale bars: 1 mm.
Figure 2 in Limited thermal plasticity in high mountain tropical water bears
Figure 2. Mortality at each temperature. Three sets of fifteen tardigrades were exposed to temperatures of 20 °C, 30 °C, and 40 °C. As the temperature increases, so does the mortality.
Fig. 3 in Susceptibility of tropical mountain forests to biological invasions from the temperate and subtropical zone, exemplified by Zonitoides (Gastropoda: Gastrodontidae)
Fig. 3. Climatic suitability for (a) Zonitoides arboreus s.l.; and (b) Zonitoides nitidus on the Malaysian Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, based on Mahalanobis distances. The higher the threshold, the more dissimilar are the climatic conditions to those of the majority of known occurrences.>100% means that the climatic conditions are dissimilar to those of any available record. The new records for the species (white circles) were not included in the calculation of the climatic suitability.
Figure 3 from: Brambach F, Coode M, Biagioni S, Culmsee H (2016) Elaeocarpus firdausii (Elaeocarpaceae), a new species from tropical mountain forests of Sulawesi. PhytoKeys 62: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.62.7548
Figure 3 - Flower details of Elaeocarpus firdausii. a petal with hairy outer surface and apical divisions b stamen with clearly longer outer anther-tooth to the right. Drawing by Heike Culmsee from Brambach et al. 1953 (isotype, L!).
Figure 1 from: Brambach F, Coode M, Biagioni S, Culmsee H (2016) Elaeocarpus firdausii (Elaeocarpaceae), a new species from tropical mountain forests of Sulawesi. PhytoKeys 62: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.62.7548
Figure 1 - Map of known occurrences of Elaeocarpus firdausii in Sulawesi. Collecting localities are shown as yellow circles: Mt Rorekautimbu and Mt Malemo, both in Lore Lindu National Park (solid black line). The record on Mt Katopas on the Eastern peninsula (?) is based on a sighting without specimen. Most of the montane environments on the island are concentrated in the Central Sulawesi Mountains (CSM, dashed black line) stretching from near Palu into the Southern peninsula. Areas above 2000 m a.s.l. are shaded black. Map created with QGIS (QGIS Development Team 2015) using the digital elevation model of Jarvis et al. (2008).
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