Kumar, SureshRawat, G.S.Price, Trevor2025-01-272018http://192.168.202.180:4000/handle/123456789/533Patterns and causes of latitudinal and elevational diversity gradients have gained increasing attention in the field of macroecology. A monotonic decline in species richness from low to high latitudes and elevations was widely accepted as the common pattern for a long time. However, reviews of the available literature on patterns of species diversity along elevational radients show that species richness often does not monotonically decline with elevation. In this thesis, I analyse the elevational and latitudinal patterns of plant species richness across the Himalaya.enSpecies diversityHimalayaPlant diversityThesis