Fig 1.
Sketch map of China showing elevation and major mountain ranges.
The names of major mountain ranges were derived from Shen (2001). The inset in the right bottom of the figure shows the south boundary of China, including all islands in the South China Sea. This figure was used only for illustrative purposes.
Table 1.
Five main hypotheses explaining species richness patterns.
Table 2.
SLM multivariate models for the residuals of species richness of all mammals and its habitat groups.
Table 3.
SLM multivariate models for the residuals of species richness of all resident birds and its habitat groups.