funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31860603);the Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(NO.2017FG001-031).
Studies onfish fauna should not only focus onfish composition and the comparison offish composition among the study region and adjacent regions,but should also explore the origin and uniqueness of different taxa as well ...
the following grants:National Key Research and Development Program(project 2017YFD0501702);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2572020CG03);Surveillance of Wildlife Diseases from the State Forestry Administration of China(2020).
The Amur leopard,one of nine recently recognized subspecies of leopard,is still the most threatened by a stochastic procession of extinction.Evaluation of the potential danger to the conservation of the Amur leopard o...
Since the time of Darwin(1859)and Wallace(1869),islands have been regarded by scientists as a prime target for scrutinizing the forces that may influence evolution and diversification and important elements in biogeog...
I wish to thank Professor M-R.Palombo for inviting me to participate in this special volume.I also thank A.Athanassiou,G.Lyras and S.Roussiakis for providing photos of the material housed in the Museum of Palaeontology and Geology,University of Athens.Many thanks are due to other reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript.
Knowledge on the Villafranchian faunas of Greece was limited for a long time,but over the past 3 decades several new fossiliferous sites have been discovered and new material has been unearthed.The carnivores constit...
This paper is included in the projects CGL2012-38087,CGL2009-12703-C03-03,EHU 10/32(Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU)and CGL2012-38358.
The vertebrate fossil record from the Balearic Islands(western Mediterranean)has improved considerably over the past decade,especially in Mallorca and Menorca.In Menorca,the Pliocene terrestrial fauna was updated by t...
This research has been supported by Fondi ex-60%Universitàdi Torino(to M.Delfino);by the Ministerio de Economía y Com-petitividad de España(CGL2011-28681 to M.Delfino).
The fauna of the Pleistocene Homo-bearing sites of Java has been well known for more than a century.A recent revision of the crocodylian remains confirmed both the validity of Gavialis bengawanicus and the synonymiza-...
Islands are often regarded by scientists as living laboratories of evolution and an optimal context for the study of forces influencing evolution and diversification.Two main issues have been attentively scrutinized a...
supported by the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30370215);the International Cooperation Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30611120127);the Talent Cultivation Project of Anhui University.
We collected available chorological data of birds and mammals in China and assigned faunal types.The 19 sub-regions of the zoogeographical regions of China were used as operative geographical units.Matrices of the geo...