Patterns of diversity and range size of selected plant groups along an elevational transect in the Bolivian Andes

By M. Kessler. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2001

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

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Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: explaining the mid‐elevation richness peak (2006, background): “Wolf 1994; Hietz & Hietz-Seifert 1995a), or elevational gradients that span markedly different wetness gradients (Kessler 2001), making it difficult to assess overall patterns.”
Vertical stratification of vascular epiphytes in submontane and montane forest of the Bolivian Andes: the importance of the understory (2007, methodology): “large canopy trees in the study area and is similar to plot size employed in other plant diversity studies in Bolivian montane forests (e.g., Kessler 2000, 2001a, b; Bach 2004).”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “Lees et al. (1999) mycalesines elevation Madagascar no yes yes yes Kessler (2001) pteridophytes and angiosperm families elevation Bolivia yes: PET n/a yes no Grytnes and Vetaas (2002) vascular plants elevation Nepalese Himalayas no no yes yes Sanders (2002) ants elevation Colorado, Nevada, Utah no…”
The mid‐domain effect applied to elevational gradients: species richness of small mammals in Costa Rica (2004, background): “To date, only two studies of alpha diversity patterns in montane plants have attempted to assess the middomain effect with mixed results (Kessler, 2001; Grytnes, 2003).”
The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness (2011, background): “In addition, some studies have revealed monotonic declines of species richness from lowlands to high elevations (e.g. Araceae: Kessler, 2002; Acebey & Krömer, 2008), or roughly constant values from lowlands to mid-elevations, followed by a marked decline (Rahbek, 1995, 2005; Kessler, 2001).”
Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes (2005, background): “On a regional scale, Kessler (2001b) and Kreft et al. (2004) have documented the increase of epiphyte species richness with increasing rainfall, even though Wolf & Flamenco-S (2003) found a decrease of epiphyte richness in the most humid habitats in Chiapas, Mexico.”
Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia, Yasuní, Ecuador (2004, background): “…explicitly addressing biogeographical aspects of epiphytes (e.g. Gentry & Dodson, 1987a; Benzing, 1989; Kelly et al., 1994; Nieder et al., 1999; Kessler, 2001a; Wolf & Flamenco-S, 2003) are scarce, often based on data from only a very few study sites or restricted to a narrowly defined region.”
Reasons for an outstanding plant diversity in the tropical Andes of southern Ecuador. (2009, background): “Furthermore, a “rainfall-diversity hypothesis”, first stated by Gentry & Dodson (1987) and recently reported by Kreft et al. (2004), seems to address a driving force for epiphyte diversity and possibly also for terrestrial ferns (Kessler 2001).”
When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect (2007, background): “, 2005) and the Carrasco elevational transect in Bolivia ( α -elevational, r 2 = 0.78, n = 8, P = 0.004; Kessler, 2001), showed a positive and significant ( P < 0.”
Patterns of plant diversity in seven temperate forest types of Western Himalaya, India (2016, background): “vegetation type, slope, aspect, edaphic factors, and altitude (Sharma et al 2009, 2010a; Gairola et al 2011a) determines the community composition, structure, and distribution pattern of diversity in mountain vegetation (Kessler 2001; Schmidt et al 2006).”
Elevational species richness patterns for vascular plants on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo (2006, background): “Most studies from tropical areas have been made at a local scale, based on field sampling of transects and often only on a subset of the total flora (Kitayama, 1992, 1996; Lieberman et al., 1996; Kessler, 2001; Bachman et al., 2004).”
The elevational gradient of Andean plant endemism: varying influences of taxon‐specific traits and topography at different taxonomic levels (2002, background): “…of mountain plateaus allows highmontane species to be widely distributed whereas species inhabiting the steep, topographically complex slopes have narrow, fragmented ranges and hence tend towards local endemism (Graves, 1988; Sklenàř & Jørgensen, 1999; Kessler, 2001b, 2002a,b, in press).”
Characterizing the phylogenetic structure of communities by an additive partitioning of phylogenetic diversity (2007, methodology): “We used Bryophyte cover as an indicator of hygrometry (Frahm & Gradstein 1991; Wolff 1993; Kessler 2001).”
The Mid‐Domain Effect and Species Richness Patterns:What Have We Learned So Far? (2004, background): “Examples include (for one dimension) the elevational richness patterns for Colorado ants (Sanders 2002) and Andean Acanthaceae (Kessler 2001), the distribution of richness with depth for Pacific Rim fishes (Smith and Brown 2002), the latitudinal distribution of African Proteaceae (Laurie and Silande”