Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (Forthcoming)

Additional co-authors: Jose Maria Fernandez-Palacios, Rosalina Gabriel, Roy E. Gereau, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Josef Greimler, David E.V. Harter, Tsurng-Juhn Huang, Severin D.H. Irl , Daniel Jeanmonod, Anke Jentsch, Christoph Kueffer, Sandra Nogue, Rudiger Otto, Jonathan Price, Maria M. Romeiras, Dominique Strasberg, Tod Stuessy, Jens-Christian Svenning, Ole R. Vetaas, Carl Beierkuhnlein

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