The Mid‐Domain Effect: There’s a Baby in the Bathwater

By Robert K. Colwell, C. Rahbek, Nicholas Gotelli. American Naturalist, 2005

89 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. C. McCain
2. Nicholas Gotelli
3. Robert K. Colwell
4. C. Rahbek
5. Kevin J. Gaston
6. Steven L. Chown
7. R. Dunn
8. N. Sanders

In Global and Planetary Change

1. C. McCain
2. Nicholas Gotelli
3. Steven L. Chown
4. Gunnar Brehm
5. K. Evans
6. Robert K. Colwell
7. C. Rahbek
8. Jeremy T. Kerr

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. McCain
2. Robert K. Colwell
3. Nicholas Gotelli
4. C. Rahbek
5. N. Sanders
6. R. Dunn
7. Werner Ulrich
8. Kevin J. Gaston

Citations in the corpus

• Statistical challenges in null model analysis (2012, background): “Th e mid-domain eff ect (MDE) proved to be a surprisingly controversial null model (Colwell et al. 2005).”
• The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient (2007, background): “The effect has been termed the mid-domain effect (MDE), and the concept has been critically discussed by various authors (e.g. Hawkins & Diniz-Filho, 2002; Zapata et al ., 2003, 2005; Colwell et al ., 2004, 2005; Hawkins et al ., 2005).”
• Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “Spatial constraints on species ranges are theoretically implicated and, in some cases, cannot be rejected as a contributing factor to mid-elevational peaks in species richness (e.g. Colwell et al., 2004, 2005; but see Hawkins et al., 2005; Zapata et al., 2005).”
• Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis (2008, background): “…the increase in species richness at low latitudes (Hillebrand, 2004a,b), altitudinal patterns (Hodkinson, 2005; Rahbek, 2005), mid-domain effects (Zapata et al., 2003; Colwell et al., 2005), the species–area relationship (Drakare et al., 2006) and species–energy relationships (Waide et al., 1999).”
• Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, background): “Geometric constraints theory predicts that wide-ranged endemic species will be the group most constrained by geometry (Colwell & Lees, 2000; Colwell et al., 2004, 2005; Dunn et al., 2007).”
• When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect (2007, background): “These big domains (the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, etc.) remain the focus of the most animated debates about mid-domain null models (e.g. Colwell et al., 2004, 2005; Zapata et al., 2005), and have the longest history of study (e.g. Forster, 1781).”
• TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2008, background): “Colwell et al. (2004, 2005) re-reviewed the subject and defended the logic of MDE models.”
• Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness patterns? A global case study for bats (2006, background): “Although theoretically controversial (Colwell et al ., 2004, 2005; Hawkins et al ., 2005; Zapata et al ., 2005), empirical support for the MDE on elevational gradients exists in varying degrees for small mammals (McCain, 2004, 2005), ants (Sanders, 2002; Sanders et al ., 2003) and plants (Grytnes &…”