Elevational gradients in species richness and endemism of selected plant groups in the central Bolivian Andes

By M. Kessler. Plant Ecology, 2000

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Fern species richness along a central Himalayan elevational gradient, Nepal (2004, background): “…groups of organisms have identified pronounced variations in species richness along elevational gradients (Yoda, 1967; Terborgh, 1971, 1977; Hamilton, 1975; Wolda, 1987; Hawkins, 1999; Kessler, 2000, 2002; Ohlemüller & Wilson, 2000; Sánchez-Cordero, 2001; Hemp, 2002; Vetaas & Grytnes, 2002).”
Species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens along an altitudinal gradient in western Norway (2006, background): “…plants have found maximum species richness at intermediate altitudes (e.g. Whittaker, 1960; Whittaker and Niering, 1975; Lieberman et al., 1996; Kessler, 2000; Grytnes and Vetaas, 2002; Grytnes, 2003), whereas other studies of the same taxonomic group report monotonically decreasing trends…”
The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families (2007, background): “To our knowledge, no study has explicitly compared the relative influence of climate on both abundance and richness, although recent studies have attributed African Melastomataceae species richness to increased altitude (identified as a proxy for temperature) and rainfall (Kessler, 2000; Parmentier,”
The biology and ecology of narrow endemic and widespread plants: a comparative study of trait variation in 20 congeneric pairs (2004, background): “First, in comparison with widespread species, narrow endemic plant species have often been found to occur at medium to higher altitudes (McDonald and Cowling 1995, Kessler 2000), and on relatively unfertile substrates (Cowling and Holmes 1992, Cowling et al. 1994, Ojeda et al. 2001).”
The elevational gradient of Andean plant endemism: varying influences of taxon‐specific traits and topography at different taxonomic levels (2002, background): “…has been found in several studies of endemism and is the most commonly cited explanation for elevational patterns of endemism (Graves, 1985, 1988; Kruckeberg & Rabinowitz, 1985; Major, 1988; Ibisch et al., 1996; Sklenàř & Jørgensen, 1999; Kessler, 2000, 2001a, b; Kessler et al. 2001, in press).”
Rapid altitudinal migration of mountain plants in Taiwan and its implications for high altitude biodiversity (2012, background): “A positive correlation between species endemism and altitude has been reported for other mountain regions throughout the world, including the Himalayas (Vetaas and Grytnes 2002, Grau et al. 2007), Gaoligong Mountains (Wang et al. 2007), Andes (Kessler 2000) and the Alps (Ozenda and Borel 2003), alth”
Altitudinal patterns of seed plant richness in the Gaoligong Mountains, south‐east Tibet, China (2007, background): “, 2003; McCain, 2004, 2007), insects (Sanders, 2002), and plants (Ohsawa, 1995; Kessler, 2000; Grytnes & Vetaas, 2002; Oommen & Shanker, 2005), and different patterns have been observed in different organisms and in different regions.”
A comparison of altitudinal species richness patterns of bryophytes with other plant groups in Nepal, Central Himalaya (2007, background): “Factors causing variation in species richness may differ between different organisms, resulting in different patterns (Kessler, 2000; Bhattarai & Vetaas, 2003; Grytnes et al., 2006).”
Variation in plant species richness of different life forms along a subtropical elevation gradient in the Himalayas, east Nepal (2003, background): “ferns in Mexico (Tyron, 1989), Bolivia (Kessler, 2000) and Malaysia (Md.”
Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, background): “Kessler (2000) and Rahbek (2005) suggested that conducting inter-taxon comparative studies at a high taxonomic level along the same gradient could help us to understand the underlying driving factors for diversity pattern.”
Large‐scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests (2004, background): “Low endemism of certain taxa, especially pteridophytes, has been interpreted as a consequence of their high spore vagility (Kessler, 2000, Tuomisto et al., 2003).”
Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes (2005, unknown): “…distribution of neotropical epiphytes (Sugden & Robins, 1979; Cleef et al., 1984; Gentry & Dodson, 1987; Wolf, 1994; Hietz & Hietz-Seifert, 1995; Ibisch et al., 1996; Kessler, 2000, 2001b, 2002b; Bussmann, 2001; Muñoz & Küper, 2001; Krömer, 2003; Wolf & Flamenco-S, 2003; Küper et al., 2004).”
Vertical stratification of vascular epiphytes in submontane and montane forest of the Bolivian Andes: the importance of the understory (2007, methodology): “large canopy trees in the study area and is similar to plot size employed in other plant diversity studies in Bolivian montane forests (e.g., Kessler 2000, 2001a, b; Bach 2004).”
Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia, Yasuní, Ecuador (2004, background): “A hump-shaped relationship between altitude and species richness with a peak at mid-elevations in Andean forests has been frequently reported (Gentry & Dodson, 1987b; Kessler, 2000; Küper et al., 2004).”