The formation of species pools: historical habitat abundance affects current local diversity

By M. Zobel, R. Otto, Lauri Laanisto, A. Naranjo‐Cigala, M. Pärtel, J. Fernández-Palacios. 2011

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Aim Explanations of biogeographic diversity patterns have emphasized the role of large-scale processes that determine species pools, whereas explanations of local patterns have not. We address the hypothesis that local diversity patterns are also primarily dependent on the size of the available species pools, which are expected to be large when the particular habitat type has been evolutionary more abundant, or in unproductive habitats due to shorter generation time and hence higher diversification rates.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Restoration of plant species and genetic diversity depends on landscape‐scale dispersal (2018, background): “Small-scale species richness in a given habitat is generally correlated with the size of the species pool in the surroundings (Zobel et al. 2011).”
Increase of island endemism with altitude – speciation processes on oceanic islands (2012, methodology): “Th e distribution of main ecosystems on the Canary Islands follows an altitudinal gradient (see detailed description in Zobel et al. 2011).”
Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “Past abundance of habitat types may drive present patterns of species diversity (Zobel et al. 2011) and possibly of phylogenetic diversity of habitat lineage-pools.”
Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges (2016, unknown): “…have long used the concept of the species pool in considering 1113 contemporary and historical determinants of diversity at a range of spatial scales (e.g. Pärtel et al., 1114 1996; Zobel, 1992, 1997; Zobel et al., 2011; Carstensen et al., 2013; Lososová et al., 2015; Zobel, 1115 2015).”
Species richness and evolutionary speed: the influence of temperature, water and area (2014, background): “…rates and/or lower extinction rates, have been demonstrated for larger areas among plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, arthropods and marine foraminifera (Cardillo et al., 2005; Allen et al., 2006; Ricklefs, 2006; Ricklefs et al., 2007; Borges & Hortal, 2009; Kisel et al., 2011; Zobel et al., 2011).”
A field test of the stress-gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient (2011, background): “Species pools are expected to be large in unproductive habitats due to shorter generation time and hence higher diversification rates (Zobel et al. 2011).”