Understanding global patterns in amphibian geographic range size: does Rapoport rule?

By Felix J. S. Whitton, Andy Purvis, C. Orme, M. Á. Olalla‐Tárraga. 2012

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Amphibian sensitivity to habitat modification is associated with population trends and species traits (2017, background): “Range sizes are expected to increase with latitude following Rapaport’s rule, possibly owing to physiological adaptations to variable-temperate climates (Whitton et al., 2012).”
• Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism (2013, background): “…for widespread species, although a global analysis of range size in amphibians revealed that temperature seasonality was the primary determinant (Whitton et al., 2012), and a regional analysis of Afrotropical birds suggested that range margins are concentrated in the most heterogeneous areas of…”
• An evaluation of the robustness of global amphibian range maps (2014, background): “Many amphibian ranges tend to be smaller in tropical regions, where it is possible to find more micro-endemics (Whitton et al., 2012), and range fit was lower for small ranges.”
• Testing the climate variability hypothesis in thermal tolerance limits of tropical and temperate tadpoles (2016, background): “Such seasonality emerges due to the rapid drop of minimum temperatures, whereas maxima are relatively independent of latitude (Chown et al., 2004; Olalla-T arraga et al., 2011; Whitton et al., 2012).”
• What determines the climatic niche width of species? The role of spatial and temporal climatic variation in three vertebrate clades (2013, result): “…hypothesis have been supported (and sometimes refuted) in subsequent studies (e.g. Huey, 1978; Addo-Bediako et al., 2000; Vázquez & Stevens, 2004; Ghalambor et al., 2006; McCain, 2009; Hua & Wiens, 2010; Cadena et al., 2011; Sunday et al., 2011; Olalla-Tárraga et al., 2012; Whitton et al., 2012).”