GLOBAL MODELS FOR PREDICTING WOODY PLANT RICHNESS FROM CLIMATE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION

By Richard Field, Eileen M. O'Brien, Robert J. Whittaker. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers (2008, background): “In general, a linear relationship between precipitation and richness has been demonstrated for low latitudes, and a combined water-energy relationship with parabolic relationship between richness and energy demonstrated for mid- to high latitudes (Hawkins et al., 2003; Field et al., 2005) (Figure 4)”
TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “Climate models derived in one domain make accurate predictions of richness in others (Currie and Paquin 1987, Francis and Currie 2003, Field et al. 2005, Kalmar and Currie 2007).”
Comparative biogeography of New Zealand trees: species richness, height, leaf traits and range sizes (2010, background): “A more relevant assessment of richness can be obtained through holding area constant and controlling for climatic factors or plant productivity, both often suggested as being related to species richness (Field et al. 2005; O’Brien 2006). Adams & Woodward (1989) demonstrated for temperate regions a c”
Biological relativity to water–energy dynamics (2006, background): “Since heterogeneity in topographic relief could be measured at the same scale of spatial resolution (macro-scale), and is directly related to vertical changes in atmospheric heat, it was added as a third variable (IGM-2; Table 1).”
High tropical net diversification drives the New World latitudinal gradient in palm (Arecaceae) species richness (2008, background): “The ubiquity and strength of correlations between species richness and climate have led to the conclusion that current climate is a strong driver of species richness at coarse scales of analysis (Hawkins et al., 2003; Field et al., 2005).”
Epiphytic lichen diversity along elevational gradients: biological traits reveal a complex response to water and energy (2015, background): “1993, 2006; Vetaas, 2006), at least for modelling tree species richness (Bhattarai & Vetaas, 2003; Field et al., 2005).”
Spatial patterns of woody plant and bird diversity: functional relationships or environmental effects? (2008, background): “Our results for woody plants are consistent with recent evidence showing that contemporary water and energy availability play a dominant role in shaping geographic patterns of plant diversity (Field et al., 2005; Kreft & Jetz, 2007).”
Species richness and evolutionary speed: the influence of temperature, water and area (2014, background): “As temperature increases, species richness tends to increase up to a maximum, beyond which water deficits then begin to depress richness (O’Brien, 1998; Francis & Currie, 2003; Hawkins et al., 2003, 2005; Field et al., 2005).”
Global angiosperm family richness revisited: linking ecology and evolution to climate (2011, background): “, 2003; Field et al., 2009). As part of the evidence for climatic control of taxonomic richness, Francis & Currie (2003) generated models of angiosperm family richness including energy and water variables that accounted for more than 80% of the global spatial variation, from which they concluded tha”