Global patterns in biodiversity

By Kevin J. Gaston. Nature, 2000

3,270 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c6b28432b06d5843db10f95409e8fef8a6e6397c

How researchers see this paper

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

In Ecology

In Global and Planetary Change

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

Citations in the corpus

Drivers of β‐diversity along latitudinal gradients revisited (2013, background): “…particularly © 2012 John Wiley & Sons Ltd DOI: 10.1111/geb.12020 http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/geb 659 temperature (Pianka, 1966; Rohde, 1992; Gaston, 2000), latitudinal environmental gradients have been proposed as a major driver of the latitudinal diversity gradient (Rohde, 1992; Allen…”
Testing historical explanations for gradients in species richness in heliconiine butterflies of tropical America (2012, neutral): “Gaston KJ. 2000.”
The geographical structure of British bird distributions: diversity, spatial turnover and scale (2001, result): “…at least in contrast with the large literature dealing with geographical gradients and other spatial patterns in species richness per se (e.g. Ricklefs 1987; Rohde 1992; Ricklefs & Schluter 1993; Rosenzweig 1995; Gaston & Williams 1996; Gaston & Blackburn 2000; Gaston 2000; and references therein).”
Estuarine diversity of tintinnids (planktonic ciliates) (2001, background): “Here, no attempt will be made to speculate as to the underlying cause(s) of a latitudinal diversity gradient [reviewed recently in Gaston (Gaston, 2000)] among tintinnid ciliates, but rather simply to demonstrate its apparent existence.”
Human appropriation of net primary production and species diversity in agricultural landscapes (2003, background): “The species-energy hypothesis (Brown, 1981, 1995; Gaston, 2000; Hutchinson, 1959; Wright, 1983, 1987) suggests that increases in available energy should make it possible for more species to coexist, leading to a positive relation between energy availability and species diversity, and the…”
Macro‐scale bird species richness patterns of the East Asian mainland and islands: energy, area and isolation (2006, background): “…scale, however, primary productivity and the species richness of a variety of plant and animal groups often exhibit a positive monotonic relationship (e.g. Currie & Paquin, 1987; Waide et al., 1999; Gaston, 2000; Hawkins et al., 2003, 2005; Whittaker & Heegaard, 2003; Bini et al., 2004).”
Species‐energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanisms (2005, background): “Understanding the factors controlling this variation is regarded as one of ecology’s most important challenges (Hutchinson, 1959; Brown, 1981; Rosenzweig, 1995; Gaston, 2000).”
A macroecological perspective of diversity patterns in the freshwater realm (2011, background): “A plethora of mechanisms have been hypothesised to account for the latitudinal gradient in RSR (Huston, 1994; Rosenzweig, 1995; Gaston, 2000; Willig et al., 2003; Mittelbach et al., 2007).”
Linking variability in species composition and MODIS NDVI based on beta diversity measurements (2009, background): “Empirical evidence suggests that regional variability in community structure, productivity, and biodiversity is related to spatial environmental heterogeneity shaped by climate, latitude, elevation, historical processes, as well as interactions among species (Rosenzweig, 1995; Gaston, 2000).”
Regional variation in climate change winners and losers highlights the rapid loss of cold‐dwelling species (2016, background): “Indeed while diversity patterns are clearly constrained by large scale and rather constant gradient in environmental variables (Gaston, 2000), the rapid reshuffling of community composition and the fluctuation of the trend in particular species must be studied in conjunction with rapid changes in…”
Seamounts : centres of endemism or species richness for ophiuroids? (2007, background): “This could be a species–area effect: larger areas have been reported to have higher species richness (Gaston, 2000), a fact attributed to various causes, including the greater habitat diversity of larger areas, the larger populations or the larger regional species pool (Gotelli & Graves, 1995; Kolef”
Mapping More of Terrestrial Biodiversity for Global Conservation Assessment (2004, methodology): “Developing a global model of spatial pattern in biodiversity To integrate the disparate types of biological and environmental data employed in our approach, we focus our efforts on describing spatial pattern in emergent (or collective) properties of species-level biodiversity ( Gaston 2000 ), rather”
Late Jurassic Climates, Vegetation, and Dinosaur Distributions (2004, background): “These are then considered in the context of latitudinal gradients in taxonomic diversity, a well-studied phenomenon in modern biota (Rosenzweig 1992, 1995; Gaston 2000 ).”
Large-scale patterns in diversity and community structure of surface water copepods from the Atlantic Ocean (2002, background): “Although null models based on simple geometry can predict latitudinal clines in diversity (Colwell & Hurtt 1994), latitude is not itself generally regarded as a major driver of large-scale patterns in diversity (Gaston 2000).”