Why we should be looking for longitudinal patterns in biodiversity

Environmental DNA reveals quantitative patterns of fish biodiversity ...

To our knowledge, our results are the first demonstration of the capacity of eDNA metabarcoding to describe longitudinal fish assemblage patterns in a large ...

Global patterns in biodiversity

The latitudinal gradient in species richness, however complex it might be, is a consequence of systematic spatial variation in the balance of speciation and the ...

Biodiversity at the edge: A test of the importance of spatial “mass ...

If mass effects are important, plant species diversity should increase near habitat boundaries, especially where habitat differences are moderate. In the first ...

Inferring Food Web Structure to Identify Seasonal and Longitudinal ...

2014) and some studies have attempted to look at patterns in stable isotopes across ... patterns in prey to predator ratios, it is possible that the.

A Theory of Global Biodiversity (MPB-60) - chapter 1

ries specifically developed to explain observed biodiversity patterns; it related ... The idea is to capture the first-order latitudinal and longitudinal patterns ...

Marine Longitudinal Biodiversity: Causes and Conservation - jstor

A newly published model indicates a positive relationship between environmental temperature and the rate of speciation. While this helps to explain the ...

Ecological and latitudinal aspects - Coastal Wiki

Rapoport's rule (latitudinal differences in species range sizes) - smaller geographic ranges in the tropics permit more species to co-occur in a ...

Latitudinal gradients in species diversity - Wikipedia

Species richness, or biodiversity, increases from the poles to the tropics for a wide variety of terrestrial and marine organisms, often referred to as the ...

Exploring Benthic Biodiversity Patterns and Hotspots - CORE

We do not know to what extent this hypothesis applies to other faunal groups ... Longitudinal patterns of benthic biodiversity along the open slopes of the.

The role of physical variables in biodiversity patterns of intertidal ...

Latitude and longitude were treated as variables in order to facilitate the explanation of the potential biogeographic gradients. In all cases, species cover of ...

Five Predicting Global Biodiversity Patterns from Theory

It showed that a metacommunity model implementation of the theory can reproduce first-order patterns of declining species richness from the tropics to the poles ...

Global biodiversity patterns of benthic marine algae.

A suite of hypotheses is assessed, suggested to explain patterns of marine diversity, by comparing algal-richness patterns in combination with the size and ...

The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and ...

Spatial patterns showed a general decrease in biodiversity from northwestern to southeastern regions following a gradient of production, with some exceptions ...

Forest biodiversity, relationships to structural and functional ...

Tree species diversity is better predicted by tree height than forest age or biomass. Very different distribution patterns of two common maple ...

Biodiversity Patterns in Melanesian Coral Reef Fish: New Research ...

Amatangelo laments, “It seems almost passé to look at old collections and think about how and why long-dead historians collected their data.

Comparing large-scale bioregions and fine-scale community-level ...

The strong longitudinal pattern in species ... they can be used as a surrogate for biological patterns seen in other taxa. ... We suggest that it may be ...

Genetic and species-level biodiversity patterns are linked by ...

If true, we may be able to infer processes underlying biodiversity patterns at both ... Similar to patterns of species richness, a longitudinal ...

Multifaceted fish diversities respond differently to impounding age ...

The total species richness and phylogenetic diversity increased significantly with the distance from the dams, but the functional diversity did ...

Urban buried streams: Abrupt transitions in habitat and biodiversity

To understand how culverts affect longitudinal biotic and abiotic characteristics of urban streams, we evaluated longitudinal patterns of physical habitat ...

Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity - PNAS

The presented geostatistical approach is likely to prove instrumental for identifying richness patterns of the many other taxa without single-species ...