The relationship between species elevational range size of
breeding birds, temperature range, primary productivity, habitatheterogeneity, and species
richness: an empirical test of related environmental hypotheses and
rescue effect in the Eastern Himalayas
Author Shutian Chen1,2, Paras Bikram
Singh2, Huijian Hu2, Zhifeng
Ding2, Zhixin Zhou2, Ke
Rong1,3*,
and Yiming Hu2*
1 College of Wildlife and Protected Area,
Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
2 Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal
Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of
Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology,
Guangdong Academy of Sciences. Guangzhou, China
3 Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology,
National Forestry And Grassland Administration, Harbin, China