Hot off the Press! Mountain passes are higher in the tropics!

By | July 25th, 2021|Uncategorized|

Congratulations to Dr. Flavia Montaño-Centellas (flamontano [at] gmail [dot] com) for her new publication in Journal of Biogeography.  Using datasets from montane gradients across the globe, Flavia tests Dan Janzen's idea regarding "Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics" (American Naturalist, 1967) using multiple analyses of bird diversity across latitudinal gradients.  The study concludes [...]