Location of the tropical alpine-like climate regions in the Tropics on a Mercator projection of the world with shaded relief and coloured height based on SRTM data with 1 arc second resolution. Credit: NASA/JPL/NIMA downloaded from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03395. Detailed maps for each region are included in the Suppl. material 3 (figures S3–S6).

 
 
  Part of: Gehrke B (2018) Staying cool: preadaptation to temperate climates required for colonising tropical alpine-like environments. PhytoKeys 96: 111-125. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.96.13353