The Mid‐Domain Effect and Species Richness Patterns:What Have We Learned So Far?

By Robert K. Colwell, C. Rahbek, Nicholas Gotelli. American Naturalist, 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “Despite recent interest in artefactual effects in diversity gradient analyses (e.g. DinizFilho et al. , 2003; Colwell et al. , 2004), formal analyses of possible artefacts in collecting effort and data quality underpinning coarse-scale strategic conservation schemes appear to be rare (but see, e.g.…”
CAUSES OF LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS IN SPECIES RICHNESS: A TEST WITH FISHES OF THE TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC (2005, background): “…arise from statistical effects of (1) spatial autocorrelation in the distribution of temperature and (2) strong covariation between temperature and the middomain effect, two factors that have never been analyzed together in marine studies and seldom in terrestrial studies (Colwell et al. 2004).”
Altitudinal patterns of seed plant richness in the Gaoligong Mountains, south‐east Tibet, China (2007, background): “The hypothesis has recently attracted much interest and caused controversy among the researchers (e.g. Hawkins & Diniz-Filho, 2002; Colwell et al ., 2004).”
Elevational species richness patterns for vascular plants on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo (2006, background): “The middomain effect is a hypothesis that has received much attention recently in connection with elevational gradients (Colwell & Hurtt, 1994; Grytnes & Vetaas, 2002; Grytnes, 2003b; Zapata et al., 2003; Colwell et al., 2004; McCain, 2005).”
Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects (2010, methodology): “Fisher’s a takes into account both species richness and evenness (Fisher et al. 1943; Gotelli and Colwell 2001; Colwell et al. 2004b; Magurran 2004).”
Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, background): “Area, geometric constraints, climate and productivity are the most frequently cited explanations for variations in species richness (Rahbek, 1997, 2005; Colwell et al., 2004; McCain, 2004; Koh et al., 2006; Nogu es-Bravo et al., 2008; Sanders & Rahbek, 2012).”
Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains (2007, background): “Mid-domain effect null models have received increasing attention as potential explanations for patterns of species richness along a variety of domains (e.g. Colwell et al., 2004; Dunn et al., 2006).”
The Role of Propagule Pressure in Biological Invasions (2009, background): “Null models in ecology have been controversial since their widespread introduction in the 1980s (Gotelli & Graves 1996); recent examples are controversies surrounding the neutral theory of Hubbell (2001) and the mid-domain hypothesis of species richness (Colwell et al. 2004).”
Distribution pattern of trees along an elevation gradient of Eastern Himalaya, India (2011, neutral): “Recently, geometric constraints or mid-domain effect (MDE) has been interpreted as one of the most important drivers for such a pattern (Colwell and Hurtt, 1994; Colwell et al., 2004).”
Descending to the twilight-zone: changes in coral reef fish assemblages along a depth gradient down to 65 m (2008, methodology): “It could be argued that the rise in species richness is due to a mid domain effect (Colwell & Lees 2000, Connolly et al. 2003, Colwell et al. 2004b, but see also Zapata et al. 2003, 2005).”
Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness patterns? A global case study for bats (2006, methodology): “The MDE predicts mid-elevational peaks in species richness based on spatial constraints of range placement between the hard boundaries of the sea and mountain summits (Colwell & Hurtt, 1994; Colwell & Lees, 2000; McCain, 2003, 2004; Colwell et al ., 2004).”
The Mid‐Domain Effect: There’s a Baby in the Bathwater (2005, methodology): “In a recent article (Colwell et al. 2004; hereafter CRG), we reviewed all studies of the mid-domain effect (MDE) published up to that time and responded to earlier critiques of MDE by (among others) Hawkins and Diniz-Filho (2002) and Zapata et al. (2003).”
GLOBAL MODELS FOR PREDICTING WOODY PLANT RICHNESS FROM CLIMATE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION (2005, background): “This has burgeoned in recent years, and contains richly contrasting views of controls on diversity (notably Huston 1994, Whittaker et al. 2001, 2003, Blackburn and Gaston 2003, Hawkins et al. 2003, Colwell et al. 2004, Currie and Francis 2004, Qian and Ricklefs 2004).”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “Spatial constraints on species ranges are theoretically implicated and, in some cases, cannot be rejected as a contributing factor to mid-elevational peaks in species richness (e.g. Colwell et al., 2004, 2005; but see Hawkins et al., 2005; Zapata et al., 2005).”
Contrasting patterns in elevational diversity between microorganisms and macroorganisms (2011, background): “Although the MDE has been supported by some observations (Colwell et al., 2004), it has less often been reported to correlate well with the distribution of aquatic macroinvertebrates along such gradients (Jacobsen, 2008).”