supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC2602500);Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China"Wild germplasm collection and preservation in Great Gaoligong Mountain"(2021FY100200);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(2019QZKK0501);Survey of Wildlife Resources in Key Areas of Tibet(ZL202203601);Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program Yunling Scholar Project to J.C.;Key R&D program of Yunnan Province,China(202103AC100003);Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program Young Talent Project to W.G.;China’s Biodiversity Observation Network(Sino-BON)to WYH;National Natural Science Foundation of China(32130015);Program of Yunnan Forestry and Grassland Administration(2022GF258D-10);CAS Special Research Assistant(SRA)Program;Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program Young Talent Project to K.W.
Based on literature review and long-term field surveys,we compile the first comprehensive checklist of the herpetofauna of the Gaoligong Mountain(GLGM).Based on newly collected vouchers and confirmed photos,we added s...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB31000000);National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(32170447);program of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(2019087)。
Cenozoic tectonic evolution in the Tethyan region has greatly changed the landforms and environment of Eurasia,driving the evolution of animals and greatly affecting the diversity patterns of Eurasian animals.By combi...
Tso-Hsin Cheng(Zuoxin Zheng,郑作新)(Fig.1)was bom in Fuzhou,Fujian Provinee on November 18,1906.He earned his Ph.D.from the University of Michigan in 1930,at the age of 23.After graduation,he returned to his homeland,...
supported by the International Bureau, Bonn, FRG (Grant no. CHL07/007);the Direction of Investigation and Development of the University Austral de Chile, Valdivia, UACh, Chile (Grant no. S-2008-14);the Chilean Antarctic Institute, INACh (Grant no. T_21-09)
Historical and novel data on the geographic and bathymetric distribution of ascidians from Antarctic, Magellan and Chilean waters are compiled, and an inventory of taxa comprising 162 species reported over a 150 year ...
Background: In this study, the ancestral distributional ranges and the tempo of diversification patterns of global Galliformes were investigated.Methods: Different diversification models characterizing possible tempo ...
This is a study about the zoographical and taxonomy aspects of Diplopoda class in Albania. Based on the published studies of foreign and Albanian researchers, we have analyzed the current level of information about th...
In the world-wide zoogeographic division, there has been no consentaneous understanding about the delimitation between palaearctic and oriental realms in western China. In this study, we will discuss the division base...
Supported by the Iranian Ministry of Science;Technology and the PA Hens Memorial Fund
The Middle East is an important contact zone for a considerable number of bird taxa from the western and eastern Palearctic and from the great Saharo-Sindian desert belt.Using WORLDMAP software,we analyzed the geograp...
support of the Russian Basic Research Foundation and Chinese Foundation of Natural Sciences (projects 96-04-10007 and 05-04-39018);the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (the program“Biodiversity and dynamics of genepools.”)。
We assessed the diversity of rodent communities in the deserts of Russia,Kazakhstan,and Central Asia using geographic information system technology.There are 66 species of rodents,belonging to eight faunistic complexe...
The cyprinid genus Spinibarbus consists of 5 species. They form into a monophyly by three synapomorphies. Based on 19 external and skeletal characters, the most parsimonious cladogram is constructed for Spinibarbus fi...