Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions

By D. Schemske, G. Mittelbach, H. Cornell, James M Sobel, K. Roy. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity (2015, background): “All of these problems typically reduce the volume of interaction data that can be obtained, so studies using standardized techniques to measure interactions throughout several biomes are scarce (see Schemske et al. 2009).”
Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature (2013, background): “Journal of Ecology © 2013 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 101, 784–795 argued that biotic interactions such as those between plants and their herbivores, pathogens or mutualistic fungi are less prevalent at higher latitudes (reviewed by Schemske et al. 2009).”
Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents (2012, background): “However, it is reasonable to expect that interaction effects vary in space (Schemske et al., 2009) and time (Olesen et al., 2008; Petanidou et al., 2008).”
Latitudinal variation in herbivory: influences of climatic drivers, herbivore identity and natural enemies (2015, background): “…and in warmer climates and thus lead to stronger suppression of herbivores (Dobzhansky 1950, Pennings and Silliman 2005, Van Bael et al. 2008, Schemske et al. 2009, Bj ö rkman et al. 2011), but few studies have rigorously addressed the potential eff ects of climate and latitude on the third…”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “For example, the warm, moist, aseasonal environments that best favor rapid tree growth may also favor the herbivores, pathogens, and agents of decay that attack trees (Givnish 1999, Gilbert 2005, Frazier et al. 2006, Schemske et al. 2009).”
Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea? (2016, background): “…generally ‘benign’ climate, as well as the high species diversity of tropical habitats, and the subsequent narrower niches in tropical species due to greater ‘species packing’ in those communities (Dobzhansky 1950, MacArthur 1972, Schemske et al. 2009, Salazar & Marquis 2012, Coley & Kursar 2014).”