The mid‐domain effect applied to elevational gradients: species richness of small mammals in Costa Rica

By C. McCain. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Elevational Gradients in Species Richness (2010, background): “MDE predicts a unimodal diversity curve with maximum diversity at the midpoint of the mountain (Grytnes and Vetaas, 2002; McCain, 2004), and a strong concordance between MDE Monte Carlo simulations and empirical diversity (e.”
The Mid‐Domain Effect and Species Richness Patterns:What Have We Learned So Far? (2004, methodology): “…effects of geometric constraints using an appropriate MDE model is an effective means of pinpointing regions where a net excess or net deficiency of species remains (Rahbek 1997; Connolly et al. 2003; McCain 2004)—deviations that might be explained by spatial patterns of speciation and extinction.”
ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS IN DIVERSITY OF SMALL MAMMALS (2005, methodology): “To test the influence of geographic boundaries, diversity patterns were compared to null model predictions with a Monte Carlo simulation procedure (Mid-Domain Null; McCain 2004).”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “Appendix C provides additional examples of MDE–environment collinearity on elevational gradients (Grytness and Vetaas 2002, McCain 2004, Carpenter 2005).”
Phylogeny, ecology, and the origins of climate-richness relationships (2012, methodology): “In brief, we used Mid-Domain null (McCain 2004) to simulate 1000 data sets in which species’ ranges were randomly placed along the temperature and precipitation gradients in each region.”
Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota (2010, background): “…2004), to identify centers of species endemism (Fjeldså and Lovett, 1997; Rahbek, 1997), to test the mid-domain hypothesis (Bachman et al., 2004; McCain, 2004), and to evaluate the extent of thermal specialization (Williams et al., 2009; McCain, 2009) and recent vertical-range shifts (Chen et…”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “On mountains, MDE predicts (McCain , 2004) (A) a unimodal diversity curve with maximum diversity at the mid-point of the mountain.”
Why are there so many species in the tropics? (2013, background): “Also relevant are mechanisms responsible for the frequently observed peak of diversity at intermediate elevations, a phenomenon seldom seen across latitude (e.g. McCain, 2004; Colwell, 2011).”
Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, background): “…and the functioning of ecosystems (Rahbek, 1995, 2005; Colwell & Lees, 2000; 2310 http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jbi ª 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd doi:10.1111/jbi.12177 Lomolino, 2001; McCain, 2004, 2009; Fu et al., 2006; Kluge et al., 2006; Nogu es-Bravo et al., 2008; Wu et al., 2013).”
When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect (2007, methodology): “For this work, all studies are based on MDE null models that use randomizations of empirical range sizes (e.g. RangeModel, Colwell, 2005; Mid-Domain Null, McCain, 2004b).”
Elevational Trends in Biodiversity (2013, background): “…in actually detecting an abrupt change in species composition or increased species richness around the assumed ecotones (Terborgh, 1985; McCain, 2004; but see Grytnes, 2003 and Kessler, 2000), indicating that this may not be important for shaping the elevational richness pattern, but…”
Altitudinal patterns of seed plant richness in the Gaoligong Mountains, south‐east Tibet, China (2007, background): “…recent years, many researches have explored the elevational biodiversity patterns of birds (Rahbek, 1997), mammals (Heaney, 2001; Li et al ., 2003; McCain, 2004, 2007), insects (Sanders, 2002), and plants (Ohsawa, 1995; Kessler, 2000; Grytnes & Vetaas, 2002; Oommen & Shanker, 2005), and different…”
Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) species distribution along three Neotropical elevational gradients: an alternative rescue effect to explain Rapoport's rule? (2006, methodology): “To compare the observed with the expected species richness by the middomain effect, we generated 95% prediction intervals through 50,000 Monte Carlo simulations of the elevational ranges within the domain using the software mid-domain null (McCain, 2004, 2005).”
Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness patterns? A global case study for bats (2006, methodology): “To test the influence of geographical boundaries, species richness patterns were compared to null model predictions with a Monte Carlo simulation procedure (Mid-Domain Null; McCain, 2004).”