The alpha–beta–regional relationship: providing new insights into local–regional patterns of species richness and scale dependence of diversity components

By Jon C. Gering, T. O. Crist. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Contrasting responses of bee communities to coffee flowering at different spatial scales (2006, background): “Biodiversity patterns vary across different spatial scales (Wagner et al. 2000, Gering and Christ 2002, Willis and Whittaker 2002, Summerville et al. 2003).”
Lichen diversity and red-listed lichen species relationships with tree species and diameter in wooded meadows (2010, background): “As such, lichen communities on Ulmus can be described as a dominated where richness is concentrated at the individual tree level, whereas lichen communities on Betula are b dominated ‘enriched’ by the between tree pool of species ( Gering and Crist 2002 ).”
Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness (2003, background): “…et al. 1995, Srivastava 1999), whether the scales at which local and regional scales were defined were pertinent (Huston 1999, Loreau 2000, Gering and Crist 2002, Arita and Rodrigez 2002, Mouquet and Loreau 2003), and whether the processes behind the variation in species richness were…”
Plant–animal interactions in seagrass beds: ongoing and future challenges for understanding population and community dynamics (2005, methodology): “Conceptual models and methodologies incorporating this idea have recently been developed (Srivastava 1999; Gering and Crist 2002; Noda 2004), and have been applied to empirical field studies (Hughes et al. 1999; Okuda et al. 2004).”
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity (2010, background): “…become a popular measure of ‘‘beta diversity’’, especially when partitioning regional species richness at multiple spatial scales (Wagner et al. 2000, Gering and Crist 2002, Crist et al. 2003, Gering et al. 2003, Summerville et al. 2003, Roschewitz et al. 2005, Chandy et al. 2006, Crist and…”
Spatial hierarchical approach in community ecology: a way beyond high context-dependency and low predictability in local phenomena (2004, methodology): “ Gering and Crist (2002) used a new approach, the use of alpha–betaregional (ABR) relationships to quantify the contributions of a- and b-diversity to regional diversity by regressing the alpha diversity against the c-diversity across several hierarchical scales (Fig. 2). There are three important ”
From communities to continents: beta diversity of herbivorous insects (2005, background): “The role of dispersal limitation in the distribution of herbivorous insects in tropical forests could be minor, as shortlived insects are efficient colonisers of their mostly long-lived woody hosts.”
Partitioning Species Diversity across Landscapes and Regions: A Hierarchical Analysis of α, β, and γ Diversity (2003, background): “For example, Gering and Crist (2002) showed how the richness components of individual samples can be used in a regression analysis to determine how the relative importance of a and b components change in local-regional relationships of species richness, which provided a quantitative assessment of…”
Beta diversity in stream macroinvertebrate assemblages: among-site and among-microhabitat components (2008, methodology): “Whittaker’s index was widely adopted in the following decades and underwent several adaptations (Harrison et al., 1992; Magurran, 2004). An alternative approach interprets beta diversity as the difference between gamma and alpha diversities (Allan, 1975; Gering & Crist, 2002). Beta diversity is a me”
Spatiotemporal changes of beetle communities across a tree diversity gradient (2009, background): “In particular for canopy beetles, community interaction takes place in individual tree crowns (Gering & Crist, 2002), and sample-based a-diversity can be utilized as a snapshot of this community at a given time.”
Changes in species diversity following habitat disturbance are dependent on spatial scale: theoretical and empirical evidence (2008, background): “Thus, measures of species richness (Palmer & White 1994; He & Legendre 2002) and many measures of species diversity vary with spatial scale (Crawley & Harral 2001; Gering & Crist 2002; Willis & Whittaker 2002).”
Diversity partitioning of a Late Ordovician marine biotic invasion: controls on diversity in regional ecosystems (2007, background): “Since Lande (1996) recast Whittaker’s notation in additive terms, ADP has been increasingly applied in ecological studies (e.g., Loreau 2000; Gering and Crist 2002; Veech et al. 2002; Crist et al. 2003; Gering et al. 2003; Okuda et al. 2004).”
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses (2012, background): “Thus, the mainland-island concept underestimates the importance of heterogeneity in driving community dissimilarity, which increases with distance in a poorly understood way (Gering & Crist, 2002; Gering, Crist & Veech, 2003; Cook et al., 2005).”