Environmental and topographic drivers of amphibian phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the Iberian Peninsula.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes driving biodiversity patterns and allowing their persistence is of utmost importance. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain spatial diversity patterns, including water-energy availability, habitat heterogeneity, and historical climatic refugia. The main goal of this study is to identify if general spatial drivers of species diversity patterns of phylogenetic diversity (PD) and phylogenetic endemism (PE) at the global scale are also predictive of PD and PE at regional scales, using Iberian amphibians as a case study. Our main hypothesis assumes that topography along with contemporary and historical climate are drivers of phylogenetic diversity and endemism, but that the strength of these predictors may be weaker at the regional

SUBMITTER: Paul MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9817204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature