Patterns of plant species richness in relation to different environments: An appraisal

By Juli G. Pausas, Michael P. Austin. 2001

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

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SESAM – a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio‐temporal patterns of species assemblages (2011, methodology): “These approaches have been widely used in the last two decades (e.g. Pausas & Austin, 2001; Currie et al., 2004; Thuiller et al., 2006; Rahbek et al., 2007; Currie & Kerr, 2008; Algar et al., 2009).”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “sity typically declines with decreasing water availability (Pausas and Austin, 2001).”
Predicting patterns of plant species richness in megadiverse South Africa (2006, methodology): “Leastsquare or log-likelihood models are usually performed for such purposes (Pausas and Austin 2001) using stepwise regression to rank and select the most explanatory variables.”
Contrasting Relationships between Precipitation and Species Richness in Space and Time (2007, background): “…to influence species richness, especially in arid and semiarid plant communities where water is a primary limiting resource (Noy-Meir 1973, Sala et al. 1988) and spatial correlations between rainfall and species richness are common (Richerson and Lum 1980, Linder 1991, Pausas and Austin 2001).”
Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services (2011, background): “Species richness is commonly linked to nutrient availability, but positive, negative and unimodal trends have all been reported (Pausas & Austin 2001). Kleinebecker, Holzel & Vogel (2010) found positive linear correlations between total species richness in peat bogs and availability of N and NH4Clso”
Predicting spatial patterns of plant species richness: a comparison of direct macroecological and species stacking modelling approaches (2011, background): “In this MEM, the number of species found at a given location is expected to depend on various control factors such as unit size, resources available (Pausas & Austin, 2001; Hawkins et al., 2003; Michalet et al., 2006; Whittaker et al., 2007), environmental heterogeneity (Palmer & Dixon, 1990;…”
Plant species richness and diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the Sierra Nevada, Mexico (2005, background): “This pattern is not universal; the specific group of variables responsible for variations in species richness and diversity may be complex and may differ significantly between ecosystems and in different spatial an temporal scales (Pausas & Austin, 2001; Whittaker et al ., 2001).”
Species richness and cover along a 60-year chronosequence in old-fields of southeastern Spain (2004, background): “The results also support the idea that patterns related to plant species interactions are more interpretable when the species are segregated into different functional groups Pausas and Austin 2001 .”
Scale- and taxon-dependent biodiversity patterns of dry grassland vegetation in Transylvania (2014, background): “Heat load reduces water availability (Pausas and Austin, 2001) in such relatively hot and dry sites.”
Spatial prediction of species distribution: an interface between ecological theory and statistical modelling (2002, methodology): “Species richness is a collective property of vegetation, therefore, that needs to be incorporated into models (Margules et al., 1987; Huston, 1994; Pausas, 1994; Austin et al., 1996; Pausas and Austin, 2001).”
Topography related habitat associations of tree species traits, composition and diversity in a Chinese tropical forest (2014, background): “Species diversity can be positively, negatively and unimodally linked to environmental conditions (Pausas and Austin, 2001), but it does not provide any functional explanation for the detected pattern.”
Identifying practical indicators of biodiversity for stand-level management of plantation forests (2008, background): “Our sites were of low overall fertility, however, and the true relationship between fertility and vascular plant diversity may be unimodal rather than linear (Grime 1979; Pausas and Austin 2001 ).”
Distribution, species diversity and life-form spectra of plant communities along an altitudinal gradient in the northern slopes of Qilianshan Mountains, Gansu, China (2003, background): “Plants with similar lifeform are expected to exhibit similar responses to environmental variations and have similar effects on the dominant ecosystem processes (Walker 1992; Noble and Gitay 1996; Pausas and Austin 2001).”
The effects of light and soil conditions on the species richness of the ground vegetation of deciduous forests in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) (2003, background): “In moist forests, therefore, a certain level of soil moisture is not only a prerequisite for the occurrence of many species in the ground vegetation (Christensen and Emborg, 1996; Pausas and Austin, 2001) but is also responsible for a site heterogeneity that allows adapted mosses and phanerogams to ”