Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Biodiversity Patterns and Analyses in China 1

Chapter 1 – Latitudinal Patterns of Phylogenetic Community Structure of Endemic Birds and Mammals of China: Testing “out-of-Tropics” Hypothesi (pp. 3-14)

Chapter 2 – A Multiscale Spatial Analysis on the Distributional Concordance of Birds and Mammals on Hainan Island, China (pp. 15-30)

Chapter 3 – Community Structure and Potential Distribution of Amphibian Taxa (Anura) in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China (pp. 31-44)

Chapter 4 – Quantifying Species‟ Fundamental Niche Using Different Multivariate Ordination Methods: Testing Phylogenetic Signals and Inferring Evolutionary Models (pp. 45-60)

Part 2: Biodiversity and Biogeographic Patterns in South and Southeast Asia

Chapter 5 – Mapping Multiscale Richness Patterns of Endemic Vertebrate Taxa in Western Ghats, a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot in South Asia with a Study on the Relative Importance of Spatial and Environmental Covariates (pp. 63-76)

Chapter 6 – Biogeographic Zonation and Phylogenetic Community Structure of Palm Species in South Asia and Northern Part of Southeast Asia (pp. 77-88)

Part 3: Biodiversity Patterns and Analyses in Other Asian-Pacific Regions and the World

Chapter 7 – The Relationship between Beta Diversity and Species-Area Relationship with a Test of the Rapoport‟s Rule in Microarthropod Communities (pp. 91-100)

Chapter 8 – A Comparison of Amphibian Species Richness Turnover Rates over Ecoregions and Zoogeographic Regions of the World (pp. 101-110)

Part 4: Theories and Thoughts on Biodiversity Conservation

Chapter 9 – Biodiversity Maintenance: A Comparison of Three Classical Theories- Niche Theory, Neutral Theory and Lotka-Volterra Competition Theory (pp. 113-120)

Chapter 10 – Why Do We Care About Global Biodiversity? (pp. 121-124)

Index