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Guillermo Uceda-Gómez et al. confirmed the predicted bee-to-fly transition with increasing elevation of Hypericum revolutum in the #MontaneGrasslands of Mount Cameroon.

#Afrotropics | #ElevationalGradients | #FloralVisitorShifts | #Nectarivory | #Pollination

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf020

Erhan Huang et al. investigated shifts in the relative importance of #ClimaticAndNon_climaticEffects on forest #CommunityAssembly along large #ElevationalGradients, and to compare the elevational trends of these effects on #Species#OccurrenceAndAbundance.

#JointSpeciesDistributionModel(JSDM)

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf122

🔗 #ClimaticAndNon_climaticEffects on #SpeciesOccurrenceAndAbundance #ElevationalGradients🔅

EFFECTS:
1️⃣ Low elevation
species abundance (SA): climatic
species occurrence (SO): climatic & non-climatic
2️⃣ High elevation
SA & SO: climatic

#CommunityAssembly | #JointSpeciesDistributionModel(JSDM)

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf122

3️⃣ What did we find?

While species richness often showed complex non-linear unimodal (hump-shaped) patterns, simple linear decreasing pattern was also observed.

Patterns vary with extent and position of #ElevationalGradients !

1/7 🌿 Where are greatest number of #PlantSpecies in #Mountains? 🏔️

Our recent study in #Forests explored elevational patterns of plant #SpeciesRichness in Western Himalayas.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.3390/f16101591

#Biodiversity #Biogeography #Ecology #ElevationalGradients #Himalayas #ProtectedAreas

Can we please have more of such #ecology #zoology project videos? 😉

Here they are combining #research on #arthropods in mountain areas, #ElevationalGradients, and #DNAsequencing to assess the #SoilFauna in 🇿🇦, old and new one.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9hvpXWi-kQ

#SoilBiodiversity

CederDiv Research Project

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