Body size determines the strength of the latitudinal diversity gradient

By H. Hillebrand, A. Azovsky. 2001

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Oceanography

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The Ubiquity of Small Species: Patterns of Local and Global Diversity (2004, background): “Hillebrand and Azovsky (2001) showed that the effect of the latitudinal diversity gradient decreases with decreasing body size and almost vanishes for protists.”
Evidence for widespread endemism among Antarctic micro-organisms (2010, background): “One prediction of the ubiquity hypothesis is that, as a result of global dispersal, latitudinal gradients in diversity should be weak or absent once ecological controls are factored out (Hillebrand and Azovsky, 2001; Finlay and Fenchel, 2004).”
High throughput sequencing analysis of biogeographical distribution of bacterial communities in the black soils of northeast China (2014, background): “Hillebrand and Azovsky (2001) hypothesized that the strength of the latitudinal gradient was positively correlated with organism size, and microorganisms, such as diatoms, are excluded from the latitudinal diversity gradient.”
Using taxonomic revision data to estimate the geographic and taxonomic distribution of undescribed species richness in the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) (2009, background): “It has been noted that the observed latitudinal gradient of species richness is dependent on body size, with a smaller effect size for smaller organisms (Hillebrand & Azovsky, 2001).”
On the Generality of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient (2004, methodology): “For unicellular eukaryotes, local abundance patterns mirror global abundance patterns (Finlay 2002), and local community composition is less affected by geographic distance than for larger organisms (Hillebrand et al. 2001).”
Benthic diatom communities in boreal streams: community structure in relation to environmental and spatial gradients (2004, background): “Thus, communities of unicellular organisms should be characterized by a high local relative to regional and global richness (Finlay et al. 1996, Fenchel et al. 1997, Hillebrand and Azovsky 2001).”
Global patterns of moss diversity: taxonomic and molecular inferences (2005, background): “There are some exceptions to the general trend of increasing biodiversity toward the equator, and organism body size appears to be related to the magnitude (or existence) of the latitudinal gradient (Hillebrand & Azovsky, 2001).”
Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity (2019, background): “…processes) have little to do with factors such as temperature or latitude that have been investigated by correlations to diversity patterns (see e.g. Hillebrand and Azovsky, 2001; Hillebrand, 2004; Irigoien et al., 2004; Smith et al., 2007; Rodriguez-Ramos et al., 2015; Powell and Glazier, 2017).”
Strength, slope and variability of marine latitudinal gradients (2004, methodology): “A few notable exceptions have been reported, such as aquatic macrophytes (Bolton 1994), ichneumonid insects (Owen & Owen 1974), sediment infauna (Thorson 1952) and unicellular eukaryotes (Hillebrand & Azovsky 2001).”
Composition, abundance and pest control potential of spider communities in agroecosystems: a comparison of European and US studies (2003, background): “(1) There is a general trend for species richness to increase towards the equator ( Hillebrand and Azovsky, 2001) suggesting that a greater breadth of spider diet (reflecting a more diverse composition of potential prey) can be expected in the southern US compared to northern Europe.”
Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes. (2010, background): “…that there is a near-complete absence of a latitudinal diversity gradient for soil bacteria agrees with other research on microscopic eukaryotes (Hillebrand and Azovsky, 2001), suggesting that microscopic organisms, in general, exhibit broad gradients in diversity that contrast with the…”