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Amphibian Speciation Rates Support a General Role of Mountains as Biodiversity Pumps 

García-Rodríguez, Adrián; Martínez, Pablo; Oliveira, Brunno; Velasco, Julián; Pyron, Alexander; Costa, Gabriel; 0000-0002-9831-2963 (2022-09-20)
Continental mountain areas cover <15% of global land surface, yet these regions concentrate >80% of global terrestrial diversity. One prominent hypothesis to explain this pattern proposes that high mountain diversities ...

A test of reproductive power in snakes 

Boback, Scott M.; Guyer, Craig (2022-12-06)
Reproductive power is a contentious concept among ecologists, and the model has been criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds. Despite these criticisms, the model has successfully predicted the modal (optimal) size ...