Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

By Derek P. Tittensor, Camilo Mora, Walter Jetz, Heike K. Lotze, D. Ricard, Edward Vanden Berghe, Boris Worm. Nature, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Global shark currency: the distribution, frequency, and economic value of shark ecotourism (2011, background): “Furthermore, such capital depends on the maintenance of ecosystem biodiversity and resilience; nevertheless, many natural systems are experiencing severe losses in both (Dunne, Williams, & Martinez, 2002; Pearce & Moran, 1996; Tittensor et al., 2010; Worm et al., 2007).”
Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean (2018, background): “In the same study, however, primary productivity was a better predictor of species richness in cetaceans and pinnipeds (Tittensor et al., 2010).”
Why are there so many species in the tropics? (2013, background): “It has long been recognized that diversity is highest not just in the tropics, but in topographically diverse regions: mountain terrain on land, such as the slopes of the Andes and Himalayas, and island archipelagos in the sea, such as the Indo-West Pacific and Caribbean.”
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world (2020, background): “Many macroecological studies (Tittensor et al. 2010) make BAD (best-available-data) arguments and use coarse resolutions to explore ecological patterns, yet unaccounted-for topographic and climatic heterogeneity limit the meaningfulness of such analyses.”
The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection (2014, background): “There are similar maps for 845 reef-building coral species (29), coastal fish, various marine predators, and invertebrates (54, 55).”
Marine megafauna interactions with small-scale fisheries in the southwestern Indian Ocean: a review of status and challenges for research and management (2018, background): “The SWIO (part of FAO Fishing Area 51) has among the highest marine species richness worldwide (Tittensor et al. 2010; Worm and Branch 2012).”
A decade of climate change experiments on marine organisms: procedures, patterns and problems (2012, background): “…that ocean acidification is a novel, climate change-specific stressor, whereas temperature is a well-known driver of species distributions and interactions (Clarke & Gaston, 2006; Tittensor et al., 2010), where there is a large body of mechanistic knowledge not explicitly linked to climate change.”
Latitudinal phytoplankton distribution and the neutral theory of biodiversity (2013, background): “For instance, whereas coastal fish species are more likely to remain close to their place of origin, oceanic animal species are highly mobile and live in a continuous habitat with high connectivity (Tittensor et al., 2010).”
Tropicalization of fish assemblages in temperate biogeographic transition zones (2014, background): “Tittensor et al. (2010) found that SST was the primary en vironmental predictor related to marine diversity across several taxa at large geographic scales, although available habitat and historical factors also influenced coastal species’ distributions.”
Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity (2015, neutral): “…High High Fine et al. 2008, Jansson & Davies 2008, Jetz & Fine 2012 Marine invertebrates in tropical shallow seas High High Moderate to low High Tittensor et al. 2010, Valentine & Jablonski 2015 Marine invertebrates in temperate shallow seas Low Low High Low Belanger et al. 2012, Valentine &…”