ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS IN DIVERSITY OF SMALL MAMMALS

By C. McCain. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, background): “…and subsequent studies have confirmed the role of area in shaping the species richness gradient (Bachman et al., 2004; Kattan & Franco, 2004; McCain, 2005, 2009; Fu et al., 2007), although none of these studies argued that the area of each elevational band was the primary driver of species…”
Determinants of the detrital arthropod community structure: the effects of temperature and resources along an environmental gradient (2011, background): “Second, elevational gradients typically exhibit a continuous change in climate (i.e. temperature often decays monotonically with increasing elevation; McCain 2005) while habitat type changes little (relative to changes along latitudinal gradients), minimizing the confounding effects of among-site di”
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).”
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.,…”
Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths (2017, background): “similarly consistent mid-elevational peaks in species richness, including non-volant small mammals (McCain, 2005), salamanders (McCain & Sanders, 2010), and ferns (Kessler et al.”
Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (Forthcoming) (2016, background): “On high-elevation islands, extinction risk may be slightly higher towards the summit and at the coast where some species might meet their temperature range limits (McCain 2005).”
Elevational Gradients in Species Richness (2010, background): “, rodents, shrews and tenrecs) almost ubiquitously display mid-elevational peaks in diversity (McCain, 2005), whereas bat elevational patterns were evenly split between decreasing and mid-elevational peaks (McCain, 2007b).”
Causes of warm‐edge range limits: systematic review, proximate factors and implications for climate change (2014, background): “…low latitudes and elevations, many clades show higher richness in higher latitudes (e.g. Janzen, 1981; Smith et al., 2005; Buckley et al., 2010a) or at mid-elevations (e.g. Rahbek, 1995, 1997; McCain, 2005, 2007, 2009; Smith et al., 2007; Wiens et al., 2007; Li et al., 2009; Kozak & Wiens, 2010).”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “…no Herzog et al. (2005) birds elevation Bolivean Andes no yes yes no Krömer et al. (2005) Vascular epiphytes elevation Bolivean Andes yes n/a yes no McCain (2005) non-volant small mammals elevation meta-analysis of 56 data sets n/a n/a yes n/a McClain and Etter (2005) bivalves depth western North…”
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 Trends in Biodiversity (2013, background): “the robust, informative montane gradients across the globe: nonflying small mammals (McCain, 2005);”
Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient (2011, background): “…that best explain those patterns statistically (McCoy 1990, Samson et al. 1997, Pyrcz and Wojtusiak 2002, Sanders 2002, Sanders et al. 2003, 2007, McCain 2005, 2007a, 2007b, Herzog et al. 2005, Oommen and Shanker 2005, Cardelús et al. 2006, Grytnes and Beaman 2006, Kluge et al. 2006, Watkins et…”
Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? (2019, background): “that the elevational gradient of species richness can take many shapes, but most often take a hump-shaped pattern (11, 30).”
Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity (2008, neutral): “The patterns observed here for microbes and plants are consistent, respectively, with the classical monotonically decreasing and hump-shaped patterns observed across most macroorganism groups (4, 6, 7).”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, methodology): “Similar trends in low MDE fits, skewed deviations and lack of an area–MDE interaction were documented along elevational gradients globally for non-flying small mammals (r 2 = 0.238; McCain, 2005, 2007b) and bats (r 2 = 0.156; McCain, 2007a,b).”