Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity

By H. Kreft, Walter Jetz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Keep collecting: accurate species distribution modelling requires more collections than previously thought (2011, background): “…been shown to play important roles in the performance of tropical plants and are believed to be strongly related to individual species distributions as well as continental-scale gradients of plant species diversity and composition (Gentry, 1988; Ter Steege et al., 2003, 2006; Kreft & Jetz, 2007).”
Species richness and evolutionary speed: the influence of temperature, water and area (2014, background): “Spatial heterogeneity appears as a significant variable after accounting for temperature and water availability in many global models for species richness (e.g. Davies et al., 2007; Kreft & Jetz, 2007; Men endez et al., 2007; Meynard & Quinn, 2008).”
Odd man out: why are there fewer plant species in African rain forests? (2014, background): “For continents or unbounded regions (Cornell 2013), larger areas would contain more species because of more habitat diversity (Connor and McCoy 1979; Kisel et al. 2011; Kreft and Jetz 2007), better opportunities for speciation (Kisel et al.”
The global distribution of frugivory in birds (2009, background): “On the one hand, the distribution and diversity of fleshy fruited plants, fruit biomass production and fruit phenologies are largely determined by water–energy dynamics and seasonality of the climate (Karr, 1976; Fleming et al ., 1987; Kreft & Jetz, 2007; Kissling et al ., 2007; Ting et al ., 2008).”
Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (Forthcoming) (2016, positive): “…we cannot reject other theories for latitudinal gradients, our findings and reasoning are in line with empirical studies that found stronger coarseresolution correlations in lower latitudes between species richness and topography than with other potential drivers (e.g. Kreft & Jetz, 2007).”
Macroecology of pollination networks (2013, background): “As disciplines, biogeography and macroecology focus upon individual species, higher taxa and regional biota (Currie, 1991; Blackburn & Gaston, 1996; Gaston, 2000; Kreft & Jetz, 2007).”
Geographic distribution patterns and status assessment of threatened plants in China (2008, background): “The deficiency in distribution data, however, has often hampered the interpretation of the high-resolution geographic distribution of biodiversity (Kreft and Jetz 2007).”
Biogeographical patterns of soil molecular microbial biomass as influenced by soil characteristics and management (2011, neutral): “More precisely, precipitation gradients, water availability and evapotranspiration have been shown to be the most important factors influencing regional plant community distribution (Kreft & Jetz, 2007).”
GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography (2019, methodology): “1) allows to move global plant diversity research beyond using species richness as a proxy for biodiversity (Barthlott et al., 2005; Kreft & Jetz, 2007; Kreft et al., 2008).”
A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions (2009, background): “The high values of tropical montane areas might be partly because of steep elevational and climatic gradients resulting in high species turnover (41, 46, 47).”