Aim Plant leaf size and shape vary across major climatic gradients, reflecting the mechanisms for how plants regulate the balance of carbon, water, and heat. However, the influence of climate on leaf traits can be confounded by multiple factors, and the complex variation among different plant groups remains insufficiently understood. Here, we investigated how climate influences leaf size traits and whether this effect is moder...

The family Rissoinidae represents a significant component of microgastropod diversity, with a global distribution spanning temperate to tropical zones and encompassing over 300 recorded species. Hainan Island, the largest island in the South China Sea, harbors a rich diversity of mollusks, but the family Rissoinidae remains poorly studied in this region. Here, we report three rissoinid species and one newly recorded species fr...

Aims Long‐term climate stability, contemporary climate and environmental heterogeneity have been linked to bird diversity patterns through their direct impacts on diversification rate, as well as through their indirect effects on plant species richness, which could also directly and indirectly affect bird diversity. This study aimed to quantitatively assess whether these potential drivers could indirectly affect bird species r...