The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity

Global patterns in endemism explained by past climatic change

I propose that global patterns in numbers of range–restricted endemic species are caused by variation in the amplitude of climatic change occurring on ...

Why we should be looking for longitudinal patterns in biodiversity

Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change. ... Global diversity and geography of soil fungi.

Diversity and Distributions

We examine several aspects of the geography of climate change and their significance for biodiversity conservation. Location California and Nevada, USA. Methods ...

Latitudinal gradients in species diversity

Scale and range size mediate the mid-domain effect. Global Ecology & Biogeography 3:305-312.*Gaston,. K. J. 2000. Global patterns in ...

Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns ...

Aim It is well known that the distribution of species diversity is spatially heterogeneous, but understanding the factors contributing to this heterogeneity ...

what causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

as climate, to account for the small-scale diversity patterns that underlie them (2, 5, 17, 21-22. 10. It follows that mountains either play idiosyncratic roles ...

Global patterns in biodiversity. - Document - Gale OneFile

... climate immediately north and south of the Equator abut. It has been contended that, for a given species richness, larger mean geographical-range sizes of ...

Latitudinal gradients in species diversity - Wikipedia

Hypotheses for pattern · Spatial/Area hypotheses · Mid-domain effect · Geographical area hypothesis · Species-energy hypothesis · Climate harshness hypothesis.

Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Global Species Diversity of ...

Geographic and Climatic Factors Driving Evolutionary Radiations and Global Patterns of Species Richness of Rhododendron. All evidence supports our hypothesis ...

Humboldt's enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain ...

Together with the extreme species richness of some tropical mountains, this variation has proven challenging to explain under traditional climatic hypotheses.

Plant Diversity - University of Twente Research Information

The historical climate change hypothesis posits that a greater number of species survive during periods with stable climates than during period with unstable ...

Contemporary biodiversity pattern is affected by climate change at ...

During the last glacial–interglacial transition period, global warming and related climate change led to changes in ecosystems to a degree ...

What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

different climate types, equivalent to the climate volume of vast geographical expanses within lowland regions (Fig. 5A) (31). For example, the most species ...

Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts ...

Climate change threatens to shift vegetation, disrupting ecosystems and damaging human well-being. Field observations in boreal, temperate and tropical ...

Geographical Patterns in Biodiversity: Towards an Integration of ...

Climate, Niche Conservatism, and the. Global Bird Diversity Gradient. American Naturalist, 170:16-. 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/519009. Helmus MR et al ...

Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown

Global patterns of geographic range size in birds. PLoS Biol. 4:7 ... Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of ...

Geographic patterns and environmental determinants of ...

... climate hypothesis, past climate change, species diversity pattern. Cite this ... Latham RE, Ricklefs RE (1993) Global patterns of tree species richness ...

(PDF) Humboldt's enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain ...

Together with the extreme species richness of some tropical mountains, this variation has proven challenging to explain under traditional climatic hypotheses.

Predictions and tests of climate-based hypotheses of broad-scale ...

One of the strongest patterns in ecology is the statistical relationship between broad-scale variation in taxonomic richness and climate. The numbers of species ...

Environmental prevalence and the distribution of species richness ...

... climatic variables associated with broad‐scale patterns of species richness. ... The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity. Marco ...