Species‐energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanisms

By K. Evans, P. Warren, Kevin J. Gaston. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis (2008, background): “…patterns in clutch size have focused on the roles of food availability, seasonality and predation risk (e.g. Koenig, 1984; Martin et al., 2000; Evans et al., 2005a), investigations focusing on the impacts of clutch cooling and heating (see above) have to date only been applied…”
Conservation implications of species–genetic diversity correlations (2014, background): “1, arrow 2) as more species are sampled from the regional species pool (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967; Connor and McCoy, 1979; Evans et al., 2005).”
Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments (2012, background): “Obtaining relevant measures of energy availability over geographic scales is notoriously difficult (reviewed by Evans et al., 2005), and may contribute to the heterogeneity of results.”
Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds (2014, background): “While climate has been shown to be an important predictor of species richness for many taxa (Evans et al., 2005; Clarke & Gaston, 2006; Field et al., 2009), direct effects of temperature and water availability on species richness, as proposed by the ‘physiological tolerance hypothesis’, are more lik”
Drivers of β‐diversity along latitudinal gradients revisited (2013, background): “…role in the development of community ecology for over a century (Raunkiaer, 1909; Alonso et al., 2008) and have been at the heart of the development of ecological theories, e.g. neutral theory in ecology (Hubbell, 2001) and the more-individuals hypothesis (Hurlbert, 2004; Evans et al., 2005).”
Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects (2010, background): “…tropical energy influx promoting greater primary production may result in larger, viable population sizes of specialists, or resulting higher plant diversity could in turn increase diversities of herbivores and trophically dependent taxa (Wright 1983; Srivastava and Lawton 1998; Evans et al. 2005).”
Cross-scale variation in species richness–environment associations (2011, background): “The moreindividuals hypothesis predicts that larger populations in productive areas will reduce extinction rates with a differential response of rare and common species to energy availability (Evans et al., 2005).”
Different evolutionary histories underlie congruent species richness gradients of birds and mammals (2012, result): “There are a number of possible explanations for these associations (reviewed by Evans et al., 2005), but initial empirical tests of the predictions of some proposed mechanisms have not been supportive (Currie et al., 2004).”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “A positive relationship between temperature and diversity has been shown for many large-scale diversity patterns, although hypotheses about the underlying mechanism differ (Pianka, 1966; Kaspari et al., 2000; Allen et al., 2002; Hawkins et al., 2003b; Evans et al., 2005; Sanders et al., 2007).”
Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains (2007, background): “While many studies have tested for a relationship between temperature and diversity, only a handful of studies have tested whether observed richness patterns agree with the predictions of the MTE (Allen et al. , 2002; Brown et al. , 2004; Kaspari et al. , 2004; Algar et al. , 2006; Hawkins et al. , ”