Distribution of vascular plant species richness and endemic richness along the Himalayan elevation gradient in Nepal

By O. Vetaas, John‐Arvid Grytnes. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity along a Tibetan elevation gradient (2012, neutral): “For other organisms, mountain slopes with significant bioclimatic amplitude generally have more species at low elevation (Vetaas and Grytnes 2002).”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “…also show mixed SAR effects on mountains: supportive (plants: Jones et al., 2003; Bachman et al., 2004; ants: Sanders, 2002; fish: Fu et al., 2004) and not supportive (plants: Odland & Birks, 1999; Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002; Bhattarai et al., 2004; Oommen & Shanker, 2005; ants: Sanders et al., 2003).”
Plant species richness and diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the Sierra Nevada, Mexico (2005, background): “…11, 567–575, © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 573 Lower levels of species richness at elevations above 3500 m can be explained as a function of ecophysiological pressures such as low temperatures, low productivity and shorter growing season (Rahbek, 1995; Brown, 2001; Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002).”
Rapid altitudinal migration of mountain plants in Taiwan and its implications for high altitude biodiversity (2012, background): “A positive correlation between species endemism and altitude has been reported for other mountain regions throughout the world, including the Himalayas (Vetaas and Grytnes 2002, Grau et al. 2007), Gaoligong Mountains (Wang et al. 2007), Andes (Kessler 2000) and the Alps (Ozenda and Borel 2003), alth”
Elevational Trends in Biodiversity (2013, background): “For vascular plants in the highest mountains of the world the fraction of endemics increases linearly from the lowlands to the highest point where plants are found (around 6000 m above sea level) (Vetaas and Grytnes, 2002).”
Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (Forthcoming) (2016, positive): “Some studies report consistent increases in per-species levels of endemism with elevation in localized areas (e.g. Kessler, 2002; Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002; Mallet-Rodrigues et al., 2010; Jump et al., 2012; Nogu!e et al., 2013, Irl et al., 2015), but no global synthesis has yet been attempted.”
The elevation gradient of lichen species richness in Nepal (2009, methodology): “For example, Himalayan vascular plants showed their highest total richness at altitudes between 1500 to 2500m and their highest endemic richness at 4000m (Grytnes & Vetaas 2002; Vetaas & Grytnes 2002), while fern richness peaked at 2000m (Bhattarai et al. 2004).”
Spatial species‐richness gradients across scales: a meta‐analysis (2009, background): “Dispersal/history factors may be more relevant to patterns of endemic richness than to patterns of richness in general (Whittaker et al., 2001; Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002).”
The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness (2011, background): “…despite taking regional area into account is that, in mountains, ground surface area is also influenced by the inclination of the mountain slopes and the roughness of the terrain, so that steeper and more dissected mountains have a larger total area (Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002; Rahbek et al., 2007).”
Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) species distribution along three Neotropical elevational gradients: an alternative rescue effect to explain Rapoport's rule? (2006, background): “Species richness in two nearby elevational bands should be, on average, more similar than species richness in distant bands (Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002) due to spatial autocorrelation in species richness and/or spatial autocorrelation in an explanatory variable that is spatially structured.”
Biodiversity and phytogeography of the alpine flora of Iran (2008, result): “This result supports the hypothesis that the proportion of endemism increases with increasing altitude (Vetaas and Grytnes 2002; Pauli et al. 2003).”