What makes the Sino-Himalayan mountains the major diversity hotspots for pheasants?

Funding

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant/Award Number: XDB13020300; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 31330073, J1210002, 31501851; Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Grant/Award Number: 2014FY210200; China Scholarship Council, Grant/Award Number: [2016]7988; Danish National Research Foundation, Grant/Award Number: DNRF96 We thank Yujing Yan and Per Alstro€m for their kind help and suggestions regarding data collection, species distribution models and data analyses. Many thanks also to editor-in-chief Peter Linder, chief editor Jon P. Sadler, editor Kevin C. Burns and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions. We are grateful to all curators at the Museum of the Institute of Zoology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Museum of Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Museum of Lanzhou University, Museum of China West Normal University and Museum of Henan Normal University, as well as Zuohua Yin, who provided the species occurrence points. This work was supported by grants from the ‘Strategic Priority Research Program’ of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. XDB13020300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31330073 to F.L., no. J1210002 to T.C., and no. 31501851 to Y.W.), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (no. 2014FY210200 to F.L.), the China Scholarship Council (no. [2016]7988 to T.C.) and the Danish National Research Foundation (no. DNRF96 to J.F.).