Latitudinal gradients in diversity: real patterns and random models

By Patricia Koleff, Kevin J. Gaston. 2001

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The elevational gradient in Andean bird species richness at the local scale: a foothill peak and a high‐elevation plateau (2005, result): “By contrast, other authors (Bokma and Mönkkönen 2000, Koleff and Gaston 2001, Bokma et al. 2001, Hawkins and Diniz-Filho 2002, Diniz-Filho et al. 2002, Zapata et al. 2003) have dismissed a significant influence of MDE on spatial richness patterns, criticizing MDE model assumptions as unrealistic,…”
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity (2010, methodology): “When Lande (1996) proposed defining ‘‘beta diversity’’ on the basis of additive partitioning of concave diversity indices (b? g? a?) instead of multiplicative partitioning of true diversities (b g/a), in effect he introduced a host of new definitions of ‘‘beta diversity’’.”
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena (2010, methodology): “…beta-3 measure of Williams (1996), several studies have used the sampling unit with the highest species richness gjmax as the focal sampling unit (Blackburn and Gaston 1996, Oliver et al. 1998, Davis et al. 1999, Clarke and Lidgard 2000, Gray 2000, Koleff and Gaston 2001, Plaza Pinto et al. 2008).”
On the Generality of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient (2004, background): “Subsequent tests of the mid-domain model revealed high predictive power of such models for global (Lyons and Willig 1997; Jetz and Rahbek 2001; Koleff and Gaston 2001) and regional data sets (Lees et al. 1999), whereas others found strong differences between predicted and observed diversity…”
Beta diversity and latitude in North American mammals: testing the hypothesis of covariation (2004, methodology): “This pattern is the expected outcome of Rapoport’s rule (Stevens 1989), and is incompatible with the predictions of mid-domain models (Colwell and Lees 2000, Koleff and Gaston 2001, Bokma et al. 2001, Zapata et al. 2003).”
Measuring beta diversity for presence–absence data (2003, background): “…1977; Wilson & Shmida 1984; Pharo, Beattie & Binns 1999) to tens and hundreds of square kilometres (e.g. Cody 1986; Harrison et al. 1992; Willig & Sandlin 1992; Blackburn & Gaston 1996; Poynton & Boycott 1996; Williams 1996a; Price et al. 1999; Clarke & Lidgard 2000; Koleff & Gaston 2001).”
Biodiversity hotspots, centres of endemicity, and the conservation of coral reefs (2002, methodology): “Third, we examine how the size of geographical ranges in these taxa changes with increasing distance from the CI-P biodiversity hotspot, and we compare those changes with the expected trends arising from a mid-domain effect alone (sensu Lyons & Willig 1997; Koleff & Gaston 2001 ).”
When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect (2007, background): “Yet in other cases, the MDE explains little to no variation in species diversity (Koleff & Gaston, 2001; Diniz-Filho et al. , 2002; Hawkins & Diniz-Filho, 2002; Laurie & Silander, 2002; Colwell et al. , 2004; McCain, 2005, 2006).”
Strength, slope and variability of marine latitudinal gradients (2004, background): “Subsequent evidence was found for global gradients (Colwell & Hurtt 1994, Lyons & Willig 1997, Willig & Lyons 1998, Jetz & Rahbek 2001, Koleff & Gaston 2001), regional gradients (Lees et al. 1999), and even altitudinal gradients (Rahbek 1997).”
The Mid‐Domain Effect: There’s a Baby in the Bathwater (2005, background): “This issue was raised by Koleff and Gaston (2001), who compared beta diversity (species turnover) patterns for real-world data and the corresponding predicted spatial patterns from MDE models, and by Laurie and Silander (2002) and Connolly et al. (2003), who compared the pattern of range/midpoint…”
INDO‐PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY OF CORAL REEFS: DEVIATIONS FROM A MID‐DOMAIN MODEL (2003, result): “This is consistent with most one-dimensional mid-domain analyses (e.g., Piñeda and Caswell 1998, Lees et al. 1999, Koleff and Gaston 2001), but differs from that of most two-dimensional analyses, which tend to preserve either actual area of occupancy (number of occupied grid cells), or area…”
Biodiversity: Function and Assessment in Agricultural Areas: A Review (2005, background): “Now, numerous different models are available to explain or predict vegetation structure and dynamics of ecosystems [38, 66, 69, 77, 98, 111, 149].”