Climate-driven environmental filtering determines hump-shaped elevational pattern of seed plant beta diversity in the central Himalayas.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how and why assemblage dissimilarity changes along spatial gradient is a great challenge in ecology, because answers to these questions depend on the analytical types, dimensions, and components of beta diversity we concerned. To obtain a comprehensive understanding of assemblage dissimilarity and its implications for biodiversity conservation in the Himalayas, we explored the elevational patterns and determinants of beta diversity and its turnover and nestedness components of pairwise and multiple types and taxonomic and phylogenetic dimensions simultaneously. Patterns of beta diversity and their components of different types and dimensions were calculated based on 96 sampling quadrats along an 1800-5400 m elevational gradient. We examined whether and how these patterns diff

SUBMITTER: Liang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11963152 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature