Biodiversity, mountains and climate change
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https://doi.org/10.3989/collectbot.2013.v33.006Keywords:
climatic changes, diversification, Neogene, Neotropics, orogeny, Pleistocene, speciationAbstract
This paper discusses the issue of the origin and maintenance of biodiversity on tropical mountains, with emphasis on the Neotropics, and concludes that present-day biodiversity patterns of highland biotas cannot be understood without the combined action of Neogene tectonics and Pleistocene climatic changes.
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