Matters of Scale

By Brian J. McGill. Science, 2010

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Co-occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions. (2020, background): “…of the broad geographical distribution of species (Holt & Barfield, 2009; Benning et al., 2019), but also that, as a local process (acting at the individual scale), their impact may not be discernible at coarser spatial scales (Pearson & Dawson, 2003; Russell et al., 2006; McGill, 2010).”
Identifying targets and agents of selection: innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation (2017, background): “Interactions between abiotic and biotic drivers of local adaptation can be challenging to distinguish, particularly when biotic and abiotic factors vary at different spatial scales (McGill 2010; Fraterrigo, Wagner & Warren 2014).”
The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization* (2012, background): “Individual studies began to specify the scales at which the claims were expected to hold (McGill 2010).”
Increasing temperature may compensate for lower amounts of dead wood in driving richness of saproxylic beetles (2015, background): “Our results thus demonstrate that temperature needs to be considered, as an explanatory variable, much more comprehensively in studies of dead wood and diversity, independent of the spatial scale (McGill 2010).”