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Volume 46, 2014 - Issue 4: Losing the High Ground: Rapid Transformation of Tropical Island Alpine and Subalpine Environments
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Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes

Fabien Anthelmea Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR AMAP (Botanique et Bioinformatique de l'Architecture des Plantes), Boulevard de la Lironde, TA A-51/PS2, F-34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France ;b Universidad Mayor San Andrés, Instituto de Ecología, Calle 27 —Cota Cota, Campus Universitario, La Paz, BoliviaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Dean Jacobsenc Freshwater Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingørsgade 51, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark
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Petr Macekd LINCGlobal, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, E-04120 La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain;e Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Na Zlaté stoce 1, CZ-37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic @Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Calle 27 - Cota Cota, Campus Universitario, La Paz, Bolivia
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Rosa I. Menesesf Université de Toulouse—CNRS, UMR 5608 TRACES, Maison de la Recherche, 5 allées Antonio Machado, F-31058 Toulouse, France
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Pierre Moretg Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR 072, Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation, UPR 9034, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, et Université Paris-Sud 11, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France & Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cota Cota, Calle 26, La Paz, Bolivia
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Stephan Beckf Université de Toulouse—CNRS, UMR 5608 TRACES, Maison de la Recherche, 5 allées Antonio Machado, F-31058 Toulouse, France;b Universidad Mayor San Andrés, Instituto de Ecología, Calle 27 —Cota Cota, Campus Universitario, La Paz, Bolivia
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Olivier Danglesg Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR 072, Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation, UPR 9034, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, et Université Paris-Sud 11, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France & Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cota Cota, Calle 26, La Paz, Bolivia;b Universidad Mayor San Andrés, Instituto de Ecología, Calle 27 —Cota Cota, Campus Universitario, La Paz, BoliviaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 811-828 | Accepted 01 Jan 2014, Published online: 16 Jan 2018

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