@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {14578},
      author = {Cooper, Jacob C.},
      title = {Hierarchical analyses of community biogeography in the  Afromontane highlands},
      journal = {Frontiers of Biogeography},
      address = {2021},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {The Afromontane mountains are a complex series of  highlands that have intermittently been connected by  habitat corridors during climatic cycles, resulting in a  mosaic of range disjunctions and allospecies complexes in  the present day. Patterns of community relatedness between  geographic regions are often determined through  single-species analyses or spatial analyses of diversity  and nestedness at the species level. To understand patterns  of Afromontane community evolution and to assess the  effects of taxonomy on our understanding of biogeographic  patterns, I concatenated three different lists of  Afromontane bird taxa divided into five different taxonomic  hierarchies. These lists were converted into a  presence-absence matrix across 42 different montane  regions, and analyzed using multiple different clustering  techniques using a replicable coding pipeline. I use these  lists and methods to determine patterns of relatedness  between montane blocks, to assess the consistency with  which biogeographic regions are recovered, and to shed more  light on patterns of connectivity within the Afromontane  region. Results reaffirm the distinctiveness of many  different biogeographic regions (i.e., the Cameroon  Highlands) while also clarifying regional relationships and  the presence of ‘transition zones’ between regions.  Differences between lists illustrate how our understanding  of taxonomy and distribution in the Afromontane highlands  can also change our understanding of Afromontane  biogeography. Most notably, I find evidence for an Expanded  Eastern Arc that includes the Eastern Arc Mountains and  highlands in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. This study  presents a rigorous yet easily adjustable pipeline for  studying regional biogeography from multiple perspectives  with classical and novel approaches.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14578},
}