Spatial patterns of woody plant and bird diversity: functional relationships or environmental effects?

By Werner Kissling, Richard Field, K. Böhning‐Gaese. 2008

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

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Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression (2009, methodology): “Other workers have reported that some spatial methods generate parameter estimates that differ more from OLS than others (Dormann et al. 2007, Kissling and Carl 2008 ), and our findings support these results.”
How functional is functional? Ecological groupings in terrestrial animal ecology: towards an animal functional type approach (2011, background): “Degraaf and Chadwick 1984; Kurosawa 2009), to predict changes due to environmental alterations (e.g. Croonquist and Brooks 1991; Wiegand et al. 1997; Kissling et al. 2008), and in landscape management and nature conservation (e.”
Spatial species‐richness gradients across scales: a meta‐analysis (2009, methodology): “…primary would produce strong plant richness–animal richness correlations if examined using methods similar to those used by Andrews & O’Brien (2000) and Kissling et al. (2007, 2008), so classifying the primary effect as either climate/productivity or biotic interactions is open to interpretation.”
The global distribution of frugivory in birds (2009, background): “Herrera, 1985, 2002; Levey, 1988; see also references in Shanahan et al ., 2001), little is known about the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape the broad-scale occurrence of frugivory (Fleming et al ., 1987; Primack & Corlett, 2005; Kissling et al ., 2007, 2008 ).”
Beta diversity of plants, birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure (2017, background): “Empirical evidence suggests that climate may affect bird assemblages indirectly via effects on food resources and the structural complexity of vegetation (Ferger et al., 2014; Kissling et al., 2008).”
Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds (2014, background): “Path analysis allows us to test for such direct and indirect effects simultaneously and has successfully been applied to study the effects of climate and vegetation structure on species richness at large-scale environmental gradients (Kissling et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2013).”