Why are there global gradients in species richness? mountains might hold the answer

By C. Körner. 2000

396 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/95597515c6aa60f635cf2f964f1ae70a5bfb394d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecological Modeling

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

Citations in the corpus

The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness (2011, background): “As land surface area typically declines with increasing elevation (Körner, 2000; Lomolino, 2001), regional species richness may be expected to peak at lower elevations compared with local richness.”
Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity (2021, background): “Tropical mountains harbour a disproportionate amount of Earth's diversity compared to adjacent lowlands and temperate regions, and are frequently recognized as biodiversity hotspots (Antonelli et al., 2018; Hoorn et al., 2013; Körner, 2000; Rahbek, Borregaard, Antonelli, et al., 2019).”
Distribution pattern of trees along an elevation gradient of Eastern Himalaya, India (2011, neutral): “Himalaya has a great potential for such studies due to high variation in elevation and vegetation types within a small geographical extent (Körner, 2000).”
Elevational species richness patterns for vascular plants on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo (2006, background): “Area is a profoundly important factor for species richness that may have a large influence on elevational species richness patterns (Rosenzweig, 1995; Körner, 2000; Lomolino, 2001).”
Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations (2009, background): “Mountains are characterized by strong environmental gradients (Körner 2000).”
Altitudinal patterns of seed plant richness in the Gaoligong Mountains, south‐east Tibet, China (2007, background): “In mountain areas, elevation is one of the decisive factors for biodiversity patterns because it presents the changes in availability of resources, such as heat, water, and also area (Barry, 1992; Körner, 2000).”
Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients (2011, background): “This mountain range is therefore an excellent place for studying species richness patterns (Körner, 2000) and for testing various biogeographical hypotheses (Carpenter, 2005).”
Fern species richness along a central Himalayan elevational gradient, Nepal (2004, background): “Elevational gradients, such as the Himalayas, can serve as an excellent system to evaluate ecological and biogeographical theories of species richness and their relationships to climate (Körner, 2000).”
Unique elevational diversity patterns of geometrid moths in an Andean montane rainforest (2003, background): “Rahbeck (1997) and Körner (2000) emphasised the importance of decreasing area at high altitudes, and Holloway (1987) discussed a higher diversity of moths in montane Papua New Guinea compared to Borneo, as a consequence of greater land area situated above 2000 m.”
Elevational Trends in Biodiversity (2013, background): “Most area on mountains occurs at lower elevations (Körner, 2000) but in some areas, particularly mountainous regions, steep valleys at low elevations cover less area and lead up to a large plateau at intermediate elevations, and in such cases the area is more extensive at mid-elevations.”
Plant traits co-vary with altitude in grasslands and forests in the European Alps (2010, background): “The pattern of seed mass along the altitudinal gradient is thus unclear (Körner 2003, p. 270). Wind has long been recognised as the dominant diaspore dispersal vector in alpine species (e.g. Vogler 1901; Müller-Schneider 1986; Willson et al. 1990). Tackenberg and Stöcklin (2008) showed that diaspore”
Consistent patterns of elevational change in tree taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity across Malesian mountain forests (2013, background): “The widely observed trend of decreasing total taxonomic richness with increasing elevation has been discussed in relation to the elevational change in abiotic factors but also with respect to the decreasing land area towards higher elevations (K€orner, 2000).”
A comparison of altitudinal species richness patterns of bryophytes with other plant groups in Nepal, Central Himalaya (2007, background): “These mountains are therefore an excellent system for evaluating ecological and biogeographical patterns and theories of species richness (Körner, 2000).”