Mountains create biodiversity
(WorldNews Sweden)

News: Oct 02, 2018 Photo, Alexandre Antonelli. Mountains are among the most biologically diverse places on Earth, but scientists have struggled to fully understand why they are so important in creating high species richness. An international research team led by Alexandre Antonelli from the University of Gothenburg has now shed new light on answering this long-standing question. The team found that mountain building, through a process of uplift and erosion, continuously reshapes the landscape and is responsible for creating habitat heterogeneity along mountain slopes. `The high variation of habitats and climate, from warm forest-covered valleys to cold tree-free summits, is tightly linked to...