Centres of plant endemism in China: places for survival or for speciation?

By J. López‐Pujol, Fu-min Zhang, Hai‐Qin Sun, Tsun-shen Ying, Song Ge. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Refugia within refugia – patterns in endemism and genetic divergence are linked to Late Quaternary climate stability in the Iberian Peninsula (2014, background): “context, as noted by some authors (López-Pujol et al., 2011; Tedesco et al., 2012), distinguishing between neoendemic and palaeoendemic taxa could shed light on the processes driving endemism in this region and elsewhere.”
The role of the uplift of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas (2015, background): “Late Neogene magnetostratigraphy in the western Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) and its constraints on active tectonic Biological Reviews 90 (2015) 236–253 © 2014 The Authors.”
High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial‐interglacial climate change (2016, background): “…to have different centres of endemism, attributing high concentrations of neoendemics in south-western China to the ongoing uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and high concentrations of palaeoendemics in southern and central China to tectonic stability in this regions (L opez-Pujol et al., 2011).”
Mountains of Southern China as “Plant Museums” and “Plant Cradles”: Evolutionary and Conservation Insights (2011, methodology): “Therefore, distributional patterns of endemism are a commonly used tool for inferring the location of glacial refugia (López-Pujol et al 2011 and MountainNotesMountain Research and Development (MRD) An international, peer-reviewed open access journal published by the International Mountain Society…”
Diversity hotspots and conservation gaps for the Chinese endemic seed flora (2016, background): “…in or around China, of the WWF's Global 200 most critical and endangered terrestrial ecoregions; 13 of 20 centers of plant endemism in China (Lopez-Pujol et al., 2011); 15 of 20 centers of hotspots of Chinese endemic woody seed plants (Huang et al., 2012); all eight hotspots of China's…”