FOSSIL PLANTS AND MOUNTAIN UPLIFT IN THE PACIFIC STATES

Diversity of Plants and Animals in Mountain Ecosystems in Tajikistan

Tajikistan is a hotspot of plant and animal species diversity and endemism andis important for the conservation of biodiversity on a global scale. The country is located ata biological crossroads. Species from Central and Northern Europe, Central Asia, theMiddle East, and North Africa mingle here with endemics found nowhere else. Therichness of Tajikistan‘s biodiversity shows up at the genetic,...

Uplift, Shortening, and Steady State Topography in Active Mountain Belts

We present a tectonic, surface process model used to investigate the role of horizontal shortening in convergent orogens and the effects on steady-state topography. The tectonic model consists of a specified velocity field for the Earth’s surface and includes a constant uplift rate and a constant horizontal strain rate which varies to reflect the relative importance of frontal accretion and und...

Effects of mountain formation and uplift on biological diversity

The formation and uplift of mountain ranges constitute major geological phenomena that can have long-lasting effects on the evolutionary diversification of living organisms. They provide opportunities for adaptive evolution through an increase of spatial heterogeneity of the landscape, including elevation, and the generation of a wide variety of ecologically diverse biotopes, and affect the mig...

The Li isotope response to mountain uplift 1 Philip

Phylogenetic Analysis and Fossil Plants

Stein Jr., W.E., 1987. Phylogenetic analysis and fossil plants. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 50:31 61. This paper presents a perspective on the relat ionship between cladistic methods and the study of fossil plants. Paleobotany has been slow in evaluat ing the potent ial of these and other explicit methods compared to other branches of systematics. However, the unique or part icular ly difficult p...