Funk Lecture Series – September 2021

Join us on September 29th for a talk by Ole Vetaas on ‘Elevational Gradients and Mountain Biodiversity’, an overview of the Frontiers of Biogeography’s special issue.

Articles in this special issue are:

• Birks 2021 High-elevation limits and the ecology of high-elevation vascular plants: legacies from Alexander von Humboldt
• Di Musciano et al. 2021 Investigating elevational gradients of species richness in a Mediterranean plant hotspot using a published flora
• Bhatta et al. 2021 A pan-Himalayan test of predictions on plant species richness based on primary production and water-energy dynamics
• Dewan et al. 2021 Do sub-groups of butterflies display different elevational distribution patterns in the Eastern Himalaya, India?
• Hernández-Rojas et al. 2021 Phylogenetic diversity of ferns reveals different patterns of niche conservatism and habitat filtering between epiphytic and terrestrial assemblages
• Eibes et al. 2021 Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient
• Mayr et al. 2021 Seasonal variation in the ecology of tropical cavity-nesting Hymenoptera on Mt. Kilimanjaro

Dr. Ole Vetaas is a Professor in Biogeography at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is a vegetation ecologist and biogeographer with research interests in diversity, succession, and spatial dynamics. His main research aim is to explain why species are distributed non-randomly in the environment and he is especially interested in the variation of biodiversity from the lowland with high human impact to the summits and recent research deals with introduced trees (alien species) and forests in relation to climate mitigation.