The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas
The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas
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DOI：
10.1111/brv.12107
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发表时间：
2015-02-01
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10
通讯作者：
Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
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作者：
Favre, Adrien;Paeckert, Martin;Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
生物多样性在地球上的分布是不均匀的，生物多样性热点往往与最近地质历史（即数千万年）期间经历过造山活动的地区有关。了解导致物种在某些地区而不是在其他地区积累的潜在过程，可能有助于指导保护工作的优先次序，并可能有助于预测未来气候条件下的生态系统服务。因此，对山区系统生物多样性的起源和演变的研究引起了越来越多的科学兴趣。尽管越来越多的研究，与青藏高原（QTP）的多样性热点的起源和演变仍然知之甚少。我们回顾了与QTP隆起相关的生物多样性相关的文献。为了促进基于假设的研究，我们提供了一个地质和古气候的情况下，该地区的QTP和认为，进一步的研究将受益于提供一套完整的互补分析（分子测年，地理，和多样化率分析），以测试在该地区的生物多样性和过去的地质和气候变化之间的联系。在一般情况下，我们发现，QTP和生物多样性的其他热点之间的生物交换的贡献还没有得到充分的研究。最后，我们建议，QTP隆起的生物后果将最好的理解使用荟萃分析的方法，包括各种生物（植物和动物）从不同的栖息地（森林，草地，河流），和热带（山地，亚高山，高山，坚定不移）的研究。由于QTP地区的物种多样性更好地记录了一些有机物组比其他人，我们建议，基线分类工作应予以促进。
Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history (i.e. tens of millions of years). Understanding the underlying processes that have driven the accumulation of species in some areas and not in others may help guide prioritization in conservation and may facilitate forecasts on ecosystem services under future climate conditions. Consequently, the study of the origin and evolution of biodiversity in mountain systems has motivated growing scientific interest. Despite an increasing number of studies, the origin and evolution of diversity hotspots associated with the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remains poorly understood. We review literature related to the diversification of organisms linked to the uplift of the QTP. To promote hypothesis-based research, we provide a geological and palaeoclimatic scenario for the region of the QTP and argue that further studies would benefit from providing a complete set of complementary analyses (molecular dating, biogeographic, and diversification rates analyses) to test for a link between organismic diversification and past geological and climatic changes in this region. In general, we found that the contribution of biological interchange between the QTP and other hotspots of biodiversity has not been sufficiently studied to date. Finally, we suggest that the biological consequences of the uplift of the QTP would be best understood using a meta-analysis approach, encompassing studies on a variety of organisms (plants and animals) from diverse habitats (forests, meadows, rivers), and thermal belts (montane, subalpine, alpine, nival). Since the species diversity in the QTP region is better documented for some organismic groups than for others, we suggest that baseline taxonomic work should be promoted.