Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: explaining the mid‐elevation richness peak

By C. Cardelús, Robert K. Colwell, J. E. Watkins. 2006

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Network properties of an epiphyte metacommunity (2007, methodology): “For example, null models have recently been used to test for non-random patterns in host specificity (Laube & Zotz 2006) and to evaluate whether changes in epiphyte diversity along elevation gradients show mid-domain effects (Cardelús et al. 2006).”
Phylogenetic diversity, trait diversity and niches: species assembly of ferns along a tropical elevational gradient (2011, result): “Species richness was highest at mid-elevations, creating a symmetrical hump along the elevational gradient, as also found at the same study site by Cardelús et al. (2006) and Watkins et al. (2006).”
PAPER Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity (2013, background): “The peaking of this congruent pattern of diversity at middle elevations has been widely discussed (Cardelus et al., 2006; Nogues-Bravo et al., 2008; Jankowski et al., 2009; Li et al., 2009), although the causal mechanisms underlying this pattern (e.g. climate, scale effects and human impacts) are…”
Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity (2021, background): “While the mid- elevation richness peak is a well- established phenomenon observed in many tropical plant and animal lineages (Rahbek, 1995), the pattern is particularly strong and consistent in ferns (Cardelús et al., 2006; Kessler et al., 2011; Watkins et al., 2006).”
The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient (2007, methodology): “Following the strategy of Cardelús et al. (2006), we adjusted for range underestimation by adding 293 m to each end of each recorded range (for all ranges), half the maximum elevational distance between any two adjacent sampling elevations.”
Epiphyte diversity and biomass loads of canopy emergent trees in Chilean temperate rain forests: A neglected functional component (2010, background): “For instance, Cardelús et al. (2006) described 555 vascular epiphyte species from 52 trees at 6 sites along an altitudinal gradient in Monte Verde cloud forest in Costa Rica.”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “New England Kluge et al. (2006) pteridophytes elevation Barva transect, Costa Rica yes n/a yes no Watkins et al. (2006) canopy epiphytes elevation Barva transect, Costa Rica yes n/a yes yes trunk epiphytes ground spp. Brehm et al. (2007) geometrid moths elevation Barva transect yes n/a yes yes McCai”
Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients (2011, background): “The cloud zone is an important controlling factor for vegetation in the Himalaya (Beug & Miehe, 1999; Kluge et al., 2006), and also for orchid richness, especially for epiphytes (Wolf & Flamenco-S, 2003; Cardelus et al., 2006; Winkel, 2006).”
Distribution pattern of trees along an elevation gradient of Eastern Himalaya, India (2011, unknown): “…Sanders et al., 2007; Rowe, 2009; Chettri et al., 2010) and floral communities (Vàzquez and Givnish, 1998; Sánchez-González and López-Mata, 2005; Cardelus et al., 2006; Grytnes et al., 2006; Kluge et al., 2006; Grau et al., 2007) controversy exists regarding the pattern observed and causal…”
Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain (2013, background): “…diversity exhibit no apparent elevational gradient on Changbai Mountain, neither monotonous nor unimodal within macroorganisms (Herzog et al., 2005; McCain, 2005, 2009; Rahbek, 2005; Cardelus et al., 2006), which is in agreement with the results of Zhang et al. (2009) and Fierer et al. (2011).”
The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness (2011, unknown): “…al., 2007), flowering plants (Hemp, 2001; Moser et al., 2005; Oommen & Shanker, 2005), vascular epiphytes (Küper et al., 2004; Krömer et al., 2005; Cardelús et al., 2006; Hemp, 2011), ferns (Hemp, 2001; Bhattarai et al., 2004; Carpenter, 2005; Kluge et al., 2006) and bryophytes (Grau et al.,…”
Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, methodology): “…(thus having a recorded elevational range value = 0) by adding 100 m to each side of the recorded elevation, following the strategy of previous studies (Stevens, 1992; Cardel us et al., 2006; Brehm et al., 2007), so that each of these species was assumed to have an elevational range of 200 m.”
Ferns in an Angiosperm World: Cretaceous Radiation into the Epiphytic Niche and Diversification on the Forest Floor (2012, background): “Epiphyte density and diversity is highest at midelevation, tropical forests (Gentry and Dodson 1987; Cardelús et al. 2006; Watkins et al. 2006a) and highest in the American tropics (Gentry and Dodson 1987).”
When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect (2007, background): “In some cases, the variation in species diversity fits MDE predictions well, often better than all other measured variables (Fleishman et al. , 1998; Lees et al. , 1999; Jetz & Rahbek, 2001, 2002; Kessler, 2001; Ellison, 2002; Sanders, 2002; Connolly et al. , 2003; McCain, 2003; Romdal et al. , 2005”
Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient (2011, background): “Published estimates of environmental variables along the gradient appear in Cardelús et al. (2006), Watkins et al. (2006), Kluge et al. (2006), Brehm et al. (2007), and Kluge et al. (2008).”