Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains

By N. Sanders, Jean-Philippe Lessard, M. Fitzpatrick, R. Dunn. 2007

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Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “A positive relationship between temperature and diversity has been shown for many large-scale diversity patterns, although hypotheses about the underlying mechanism differ (Pianka, 1966; Kaspari et al., 2000; Allen et al., 2002; Hawkins et al., 2003b; Evans et al., 2005; Sanders et al., 2007).”
Coping with the cold: minimum temperatures and thermal tolerances dominate the ecology of mountain ants (2017, background): “Ant diversity increases with temperature at a range of spatial scales (Sanders et al., 2007; Jenkins et al., 2011; Bishop et al., 2014) and temperature has been shown to positively influence ant running speed (Hurlbert et al.”
Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes (2017, background): “Temperaure is one of the most important abiotic predictors of the decline n ant species with elevation as it limits the activity of ants and thus he access to resources (Sanders et al., 2007; but also see Kaspari t al., 2000).”
Temperature-mediated coexistence in temperate forest ant communities (2009, background): “It is now well established that temperature strongly affects broad-scale patterns of ant species richness (Kaspari et al., 2004; Sanders et al., 2007) and local community structure in a number of systems (Bestelmeyer, 2000; Cerdá et al., 1997; 1998).”
Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients (2011, background): “Climatic variables seem to be the most important for explaining species richness patterns with elevation, especially for broad-scale studies (Odland & Birks, 1999; Hawkins et al., 2003; Fossa, 2004; Sanders et al., 2007); however, the effect of area must also be considered in elevational studies on ”
Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient (2011, background): “…or historical variables 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,…”
Distribution pattern of trees along an elevation gradient of Eastern Himalaya, India (2011, unknown): “Many factors such as climate (Hawkins et al., 2007; McCain, 2007), productivity (Mittelbach et al., 2001), speciesearea effect (Rahbek, 1997; Sanders et al., 2007), historic events (Brown, 2001; Hawkins et al., 2007) and isolation (Lomolino, 2001) have been considered as responsible for the…”
Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants (2011, background): “A suite of climatic variables are known to be correlated with ant diversity (Kaspari et al., 2003, 2004; Sanders et al., 2007; Dunn et al., 2009a,b; Vasconcelos et al., 2010; Weiser et al., 2010) and are among the few environmental variables for which there are global, future predictions.”
Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America (2011, background): “…both patterns of ant species richness and geographic ranges of individual species are related to climate and in particular temperature, precipitation, and humidity (Davidson 1977, Bestelmeyer 2000, Kaspari et al. 2000, 2004, Retana and Cerdá 2000, Sanders et al. 2003, 2007, Dunn et al. 2009).”
MaxEnt versus MaxLike: empirical comparisons with ant species distributions (2013, background): “Temperature is broadly correlated with patterns of ant diversity and abundance (Sanders et al. 2007), elevation is a strong predictor of ant species distribution in the New England region (Gotelli and Ellison 2002), and ant foraging activity in some New England species is associated with…”