Hierarchical analyses of avian community biogeography in the Afromontane highlands.

ABSTRACT: The Afromontane mountains are a complex series of highlands that have intermittently been connected by habitat corridors during climatic cycles, resulting in a mosaic of range disjunctions and allospecies complexes in the present day. Patterns of community relatedness between geographic regions are often determined through single-species analyses or spatial analyses of diversity and nestedness at the species level. To understand patterns of Afromontane community evolution and to assess the effects of taxonomy on our understanding of biogeographic patterns, I concatenated three lists of Afromontane bird taxa divided into five taxonomic hierarchies. These lists were converted into a presence-absence matrix across 42 montane regions and analyzed using a variety of clustering techniques based

SUBMITTER: Cooper JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9956335 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature