Heterogeneity, speciation/extinction history and climate: explaining regional plant diversity patterns in the Cape Floristic Region

By Richard M. Cowling, Amanda Talita Lombard. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Predicting patterns of plant species richness in megadiverse South Africa (2006, methodology): “…Fynbos regions are not predicted to be richer than those in the east, possibly because rainfall reliability was modelled on an annual rather than a seasonal basis (see Cowling and Lombard 2002), but also owing to the role of historical climatic changes which we do not explore in this paper.”
Are seed set and speciation rates always low among species that resprout after fire, and why? (2003, background): “Recent explanations of the exceptionally high plant species richness of SW Australia and the Cape of South Africa have concentrated on the role of poor soils and speciation of (short-lived) N (Cowling et al., 1996; Wisheu et al., 2000; Cowling and Lombard, 2002 ).”
The significance of geographic range size for spatial diversity patterns in Neotropical palms (2006, background): “…may reflect interspecific differences in ecological tolerance, dispersal ability, and evolutionary history (Hengeveld 1990, Brown 1995, Gaston 1998, Cowling and Lombard 2002, Pither 2003, Lloyd et al. 2003) or may reflect ecological traits associated with different life-forms (Kelly 1996, Kessler…”
Species richness of alien plants in South Africa: Environmental correlates and the relationship with indigenous plant species richness (2005, background): “…richness in southern Africa at the regional scale has consistently shown that patterns are explained by energy availability (sensu Evans, Warren & Gaston, 2004) and habitat heterogeneity (O’Brien, 1993; Cowling et al., 1997; O’Brien, 1998; O’Brien, Field & Whittaker, 2000; Cowling & Lombard, 2002).”
Origins of global mountain plant biodiversity: Testing the ‘mountain‐geobiodiversity hypothesis’ (2019, unknown): “Historical com‐ ponents are not often incorporated in analyses of species diversity patterns (but see Buckley & Jetz, 2007; Cowling & Lombard, 2002; Relative frequency distribution of available present‐day temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) for selected mountain systems, indicating…”
Coastal South Africa and the Coevolution of the Modern Human Lineage and the Coastal Adaptation (2011, background): “1), a thin strip of land stretching from the east to the west coast, has many special characteristics (Cowling 1992; Goldblatt 1997; Cowling and Lombard 2002; Goldblatt and Manning 2002).”
Rainfall reliability, a neglected factor in explaining convergence and divergence of plant traits in fire-prone mediterranean-climate ecosystems (2005, background): “Mustart and Cowling (1993) have demonstrated that germination of serotinous Cape Proteaceae is highly sensitive to wet–dry cycles that correspond with the intervals between rainfall events.”
Do we need land‐cover data to model species distributions in Europe? (2004, background): “However, inside each grid cell there is an underlying high heterogeneity of LC that is lost (see the PELCOM data base), while this heterogeneity is a crucial factor for predicting current species occurrences ( Cowling & Lombard, 2002; Benton et al., 2003).”