Forest relicts in the mountainous regions of Africa represent one of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet, but the processes that have generated this remarkable diversity are still poorly understood. We estimate divergence times for an endemic, flightless grasshopper family and reconstruct a potential scenario for their colonization of Africa to test the hypothesis that the diversity of these mountain‐top endemics has been generated by multiple fragmentations and reconnections of tropical rain forests in parallel with climatic fluctuations.

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非洲特有蝗虫科（直翅目：蝗科）的起源及其气候导致的多样性

非洲山区的森林遗迹代表了地球上最多样化的生态系统之一，但是产生这种显着多样性的过程仍然知之甚少。我们估计了一个特有的，不会飞的蝗虫家庭的发散时间，并重建了他们在非洲定居的潜在情况，以检验以下假设：这些山顶特有物种的多样性是由热带雨林的多次破碎和重新连接以及气候变化产生的波动。