Geological and climatic histories likely shaped the origins of terrestrial vertebrates endemic to the Tibetan Plateau

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiekun He ◽  
Siliang Lin ◽  
Chenchen Ding ◽  
Jiehua Yu ◽  
Haisheng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrates

scholarly journals Evolutionary history of zoogeographical regions surrounding the Tibetan Plateau

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiekun He ◽  
Siliang Lin ◽  
Jiatang Li ◽  
Jiehua Yu ◽  
Haisheng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Striking Change ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe Tibetan Plateau (TP) and surrounding regions have one of the most complex biotas on Earth. However, the evolutionary history of these regions in deep time is poorly understood. Here, we quantify the temporal changes in beta dissimilarities among zoogeographical regions during the Cenozoic using 4,966 extant terrestrial vertebrates and 1,278 extinct mammal genera. We identify ten present-day zoogeographical regions and find that they underwent a striking change over time. Specifically, the fauna on the TP was close to the Oriental realm in deep time but became more similar to the Palearctic realms more recently. The present-day zoogeographical regions generally emerged during the Miocene/Pliocene boundary (ca. 5 Ma). These results indicate that geological events such as the Indo-Asian Collision, the TP uplift, and the aridification of the Asian interior underpinned the evolutionary history of the zoogeographical regions surrounding the TP over different time periods.

Warming patterns over the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent lowlands derived from elevation- and bias‑corrected ERA-Interim data

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Gerlitz ◽  
O Conrad ◽  
A Thomas ◽  
J Böhner
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau
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