LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS OF BIODIVERSITY:Pattern,Process,Scale,and Synthesis

By M. Willig, Dawn M. Kaufman, R. Stevens. 2003

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

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The relationship between species richness and taxonomic distinctness in freshwater organisms (2005, background): “…traditionally attracted the most attention (Gaston 1996), and general patterns of species richness have been revealed for major organism groups across large geographical gradients (e.g., Willig et al. 2003; Hillebrand 2004) and also among local ecosystems within regions (e.g., Heino et al. 2005).”
Life on a tropical planet: niche conservatism and the global diversity gradient (2013, background): “Despite two centuries of research, the extraordinarily high biological diversity of tropical regions continues to galvanize scientific debate (Hawkins et al., 2003; Willig et al., 2003).”
Relationships Among Indices Suggest that Richness Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Grassland Biodiversity (2005, methodology): “We analyzed data (Table 1) from three Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) sites (Inouye et al. 1987, Milchunas et al. 1990, Huberty et al. 1998) and three sites in Texas (Wilsey and Polley 2003, Polley et al. 2005).”
From communities to continents: beta diversity of herbivorous insects (2005, background): “…represent a large proportion of the regional species pool for the few insect taxa for which regional data are available in the tropics (Gaston & Gauld 1993, de Vries 1994, Gaston et al. 1996, Orr & Haeuser 1996, Haeuser et al. 1997, Robbins & Opler 1997, Bartlett et al. 1999, Novotny et al. 2005a).”
Features and distribution patterns of Chinese endemic seed plant species (2011, background): “The fundamental broad-scale pattern concerning species richness is the increase in diversity from polar to equatorial regions (Brown, 1995; Rosenzweig, 1995; Gaston, 1996; Willig et al., 2003).”
Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena (2011, background): “…prominent diversity hypotheses (e.g., Dobzhansky 1950, Fischer 1960, Federov 1966, Connell and Orias 1964, Pianka 1966, Palmer 1994, Moritz et al. 2000, Willig et al. 2003, Currie et al. 2004, Evans and Gaston 2005, Evans et al. 2005, Mittelbach et al. 2007) predict that diversity will be highest…”
Biodiversity of Aquatic Insects: Spatial Gradients and Environmental Correlates of Assemblage-Level Measures at Large Scales (2009, neutral): “Many macro-scale studies on terrestrial and marine taxa show strong latitudinal gradients in species richness (Rosenzweig, 1995; Gaston & Blackburn, 2000; Willig et al., 2003; Hillebrand, 2004).”
Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited. (2006, background): “…temperate-zone organisms have been central to these debates, largely because lat-itudinal gradients in climate are striking and co-vary with conspicuous gradients in species diversity of many taxa (Wallace, 1878; Dobzhansky, 1950; Pianka, 1966; Brown and Lomolino, 1998; Willig et al ., 2003).”
Latitudinal and taxonomic patterns in the feeding ecologies of fish larvae: A literature synthesis (2013, background): “Identifying large-scale ecological patterns such as those that vary 320 with latitude represents an important step toward gaining an understanding of the underlying 321 mechanisms that might be responsible for the patterns (e.g. Hillebrand, 2004; Willig et al., 2003).”
Phylogeny, ecology, and the origins of climate-richness relationships (2012, background): “Across many plant and animal taxa, patterns of species richness are often correlated with spatial variation in climatic conditions (e.g., Waide et al. 1999, Francis and Currie 2003, Hawkins et al. 2003, Willig et al. 2003, Buckley and Jetz 2007, McCain 2010).”
SCALE AND HIERARCHY IN MACROEVOLUTION (2007, background): “…robust to sampling and taxonomic treatment (the bias towards better sampling in temperate latitudes should generate the opposite pattern; see Jablonski 1993; Valentine et al. 2006), but mechanisms have been little explored (but see Willig et al. 2003; Wiens and Donoghue 2004; Goldberg et al. 2005).”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “—Environmental explanations for broad-scale richness gradients most often postulate effects of area, habitat diversity, and/or climate (temperature, precipitation, and/or primary productivity) (Kerr et al. 2001, Hawkins et al. 2003, Willig et al. 2003).”