Regional influences on community structure across the tropical-temperate divide

Multiple drivers maintain unique species assemblages at multiple biogeographic scales. Here, the authors show that the freezing line is a key barrier generating evolutionary differences in temperate and tropical bird communities across a steep elevational gradient in the Himalaya.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexander E. White, Kushal K. Dey, Dhananjai Mohan, Matthew Stephens, Trevor D. Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10253-6