Biogeographical determinants for total and endemic species richness in a continental archipelago
By A. Kallimanis, Erwin Bergmeier, Maria Panitsa, K. Georghiou, P. Delipetrou, Panayotis Dimopoulos. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2010
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We examined the relationship between plant species richness and biogeographical variables (island area, island maximum elevation, distance from nearest inhabited island, distance from nearest mainland) using a data set comprising 201 islands of the Aegean archipelago. We found that endemic species richness was strongly correlated to total species richness. Single-island endemic species richness was most strongly correlated to island maximum elevation, and then to island area, with an apparent small island effect for islands smaller than 47 km2. Total species richness was most strongly correlated to island area (with no apparent small island effect), and less strongly correlated to island maximum elevation. Distance from the mainland or other inhabited islands displayed limited predictive value in our data set. The slope of the relationship between species richness and geographical factors (island area, elevation, distance from island/mainland) was steeper for endemic species richness than for total richness. Finally, the different scales of endemicity (single-island endemics, island group endemics and Aegean regional endemics) displayed similar qualitative trends and only differed quantitatively. Thus, we conclude that different biogeographical factors act as drivers for total species richness than for endemic species richness.
Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- Mediterranean island biodiversity and climate change: the last 10,000 years and the future (2016, background): “There are many examples particularly in the Aegean where neighboring islands have different floras (Kallimanis et al. 2010) that is where biogeography becomes more important than climate in interpreting species distribution patterns (Whittaker and Fernandez-Palacios 2007) 3.”