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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Tropical Mountains"”.
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Impacts of climate warming on range shifts with emphasis on tropical mountains
… whether such responses have taken place in tropical insect species is unclear. I provided the first such evidence that tropical insects have moved uphill over four decades of climate warming. I repeated a historical moth transect on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo in 2007, 42-years after the …
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Landscape genomics of tropical high altitude plant species
… patterns: the biodiversity excess within tropical mountains. The main contributions of this thesis at the methodological level are; (1) demonstrating the utility of DNA replicates for the estimation of genotyping error and optimisation of de novo assembly; (2) proposing a method for …
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Using a spatial model of geodiversity to guide conservation within mountains at the pan-tropical-scale.
… may be a useful proxy for biodiversity within tropical mountains and could provide a valuable conservation planning tool. Here, geodiversity is defined as variation in overall resource availability, along with spatial and temporal (seasonal) variation in resource availability. Using freely …
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From Plot to Region: Assessing the Role of Land Use in Tropical Montane Forest Structure and Dynamics
… and dynamics and yet, their role in shaping tropical montane landscapes is poorly understood. The overarching goal of my dissertation is to broaden our understanding on the role of land use in shaping forest structure and forest dynamics in tropical montane landscapes, with a particular focus …
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Evaluating the Controls of Neogene Exhumation in the Tropical Northern Andes (colombia)
… and climatic forces influence erosion and shape mountains is important to understand the evolution of the landscapes through earth's history. This dissertation aims to determine how do tectonic processes and climate variability interact to shape Earth's tropical mountains. In chapter 1, I studied …
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Evolutionary Assembly of the Neotropical Montane Avifauna
… Biodiversity patterns in species-rich tropical mountains vary along horizontal (barriers), and vertical (elevation) dimensions. In this dissertation, I set out to explore the interplay between historical and ecological mechanisms hypothesized to shape diversification of Neotropical …
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Traits and Trees: Exploring the edges of phylogenetic methods
… placed on birds by migration. Recently uplifted tropical mountains show exceptional levels of functional dispersion and regions with exceptionally high phylogenetic diversity fall along established biogeographical boundaries. These analyses indicate the power of linking phylogenetic approaches …