Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness patterns? A global case study for bats

By C. McCain. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Climate and soil nutrients differentially drive multidimensional fine root traits in ectomycorrhizal‐dominated alpine coniferous forests (2020, background): “Given the high sensitivity to climate change of ECM conifer-dominated alpine forests (Dakhil et al., 2019; McCain, 2007), unravelling how fine root traits vary therein is crucial for predicting shifts in community composition and ecosystem functioning under climate change scenarios.”
Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients (2011, background): “…topic in biodiversity research, and many studies have documented this relationship for a variety of taxa and geographical regions (e.g. Terborgh, 1977; Bhattarai et al., 2004; Jacquemyn et al., 2005; McCain, 2005, 2007; Oommen & Shankar, 2005; Rahbek, 2005; Grytnes et al., 2006; Grau et al., 2007).”
Elevational Gradients in Species Richness (2010, background): “On mountains, SAR predicts that regions on the montane gradient covering more area, for example the mountain base, should harbour more species than regions covering smaller areas like mountain tops (Rahbek, 1997; McCain, 2007a).”
Using functional and phylogenetic diversity to infer avian community assembly along elevational gradients (2019, positive): “Decreasing temperature, increasing tem‐ perature fluctuation and decreasing habitat complexity and feeding resources are among the most plausible explanations for patterns of decreasing richness (Jankowski et al., 2013; McCain, 2007; Price et al., 2014).”
Epiphytic lichen diversity along elevational gradients: biological traits reveal a complex response to water and energy (2015, background): “the negative effect of high temperatures on species richness may be stronger in relatively arid areas than in wetter areas (a modified conjecture of Hawkins et al., 2003; see also Bhattarai & Vetaas, 2003; McCain, 2007).”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, methodology): “This was assessed by SAR regressions published in the original studies or by calculating SAR regressions for those datasets where both species richness data and area of elevational bands were available at the same scale from the published paper or earlier area studies (McCain , 2007b).”
Altitudinal patterns of seed plant richness in the Gaoligong Mountains, south‐east Tibet, China (2007, background): “Moreover, maximum precipitation usually occurs in the mid-altitudes (Barry, 1992; McCain, 2007).”
Pond characteristics as determinants of species diversity and community composition in desert bats (2010, background): “Although flight affords bats a relatively high mobility and dispersal ability, the local-scale distribution of bats can be shaped by microhabitat characteristics that affect the amount of insect prey available and determine the quality of the foraging habitat (Biscardi et al., 2007; McCain, 2007).”
Bats and Water: Anthropogenic Alterations Threaten Global Bat Populations (2016, background): “Water availability was even proposed as a mechanism for elevational patterns of species richness of bats in arid mountains (McCain 2007).”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “…Rica yes n/a yes no Watkins et al. (2006) canopy epiphytes elevation Barva transect, Costa Rica yes n/a yes yes trunk epiphytes ground spp. Brehm et al. (2007) geometrid moths elevation Barva transect yes n/a yes yes McCain (2007) bats elevation meta-analysis of 27 gradients worldwide no no no ??”
The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness (2011, background): “Such patterns have been documented for mammals (McCain, 2005, 2007), birds (Herzog et al., 2005; McCain, 2009), reptiles (Fu et al., 2006), moths (Brehm et al., 2007), flowering plants (Hemp, 2001; Moser et al., 2005; Oommen & Shanker, 2005), vascular epiphytes (Küper et al., 2004; Krömer et al.,…”
When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect (2007, background): “Yet in other cases, the MDE explains little to no variation in species diversity (Koleff & Gaston, 2001; Diniz-Filho et al. , 2002; Hawkins & Diniz-Filho, 2002; Laurie & Silander, 2002; Colwell et al. , 2004; McCain, 2005, 2006 ).”