Which function describes the species–area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation

By Jürgen Dengler. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant species richness: the world records (2012, methodology): “We plotted all richness–area pairs in log–log space and observed close to a power function (Preston 1962; Fridley et al. 2005; Dengler 2009).”
The island species–area relationship: biology and statistics (2012, background): “…alternative classifications and nomenclature of relationship types (Lomolino, 2000; Scheiner, 2003, 2004, 2009; Gray et al., 2004a,b; Williamson et al., 2001, 2002; Tjørve, 2003, 2009; Whittaker & Fernández-Palacios, 2007; Dengler, 2009; Williams et al., 2009; Smith, 2010; Scheiner et al., 2011).”
What ' s on the horizon for macroecology? (2012, methodology): “Journal of Biogeography Dengler, J (2009): Which function describes the species-area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation.”
Thresholds and the species–area relationship: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets (2014, methodology): “However, we have shown above that this approach requires careful consideration with regard to the choice of threshold model and data transformation (see also Connor & McCoy, 1979; Burns et al., 2009; Dengler, 2009).”
Scale- and taxon-dependent biodiversity patterns of dry grassland vegetation in Transylvania (2014, methodology): “The nested-plot series (“biodiversity plots”) follow the basic concept proposed by Dengler (2009b), with squareshaped subplots of 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and 10 m2 arranged in two opposite corners of a 100-m2 (10 m × 10 m) plot.”
Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges (2010, background): “, 2008), and species–area relationships (Guilhaumon et al., 2008; Dengler, 2009).”
Habitat fragmentation and the species–area relationship: a focus on total species richness obscures the impact of habitat loss on habitat specialists (2014, background): “Various types of species–area relationship (hereafter SAR) have been documented for multiple taxa and been found to hold at a variety of spatial scales (Drakare et al., 2006; Whittaker & Fern andez-Palacios, 2007; Dengler, 2009).”
Predicting the effects of increasing temporal scale on species composition, diversity, and rank-abundance distributions (2010, methodology): “…regression on log-transformed time-span data (S 5 b + a log T) and for power models with nonlinear regression on untransformed data (S 5 bTa) (Loehle 1990; Dengler 2009), where S is species diversity (or other community attribute), T is duration of time-averaging, and b and a are fitted parameters.”