Climatic gradients in woody plant (tree and shrub) diversity: water-energy dynamics, residual variation, and topography

By Eileen M. O'Brien, Richard Field, Robert J. Whittaker. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “…of how spatial patterns of plant richness varies at species, genus and family levels suggests that whilst species and genus level patterns are closely related, shifting to the family level may produce significant differences (e.g. O’Brien et al. , 1998, 2000; Dimitrakopoulos et al. , 2004).”
High tropical net diversification drives the New World latitudinal gradient in palm (Arecaceae) species richness (2008, methodology): “The models were based mainly on the climatic plant diversity models developed by O’Brien (1998); O’Brien et al. (2000), and Francis & Currie (2003), and the well-documented association between palms and wet, warm regions (Jones, 1995; Bjorholm et al., 2005, 2006).”
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change (2021, background): “…in shaping biodiversity patterns, particularly in low- energy, low- rainfall hotspots outside of the tropics, such as those with mediterranean climates, where other conventional drivers of diversity do not offer sufficient explanation (O'Brien, 1993; O'Brien et al., 2000; Thuiller et al., 2006).”
Ants, altitude and change in the northern Cape Floristic Region (2006, background): “, 1992), water availability is much more likely to be a strong correlate of richness than is absolute energy availability (O’Brien et al., 2000; Hawkins et al., 2003).”
Environmental determinants of vascular plant species richness in the Austrian Alps (2005, background): “…along altitudinal gradients is a special case of the well-known latitudinal gradient and may be explained by similar theories (e.g. Rohde, 1992; O’Brien et al., 2000), the ecological literature gives little evidence for this generalization until now (e.g. Heikkinen & Neuvonen, 1997;…”
Environment–richness relationships for mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians at global and regional scales (2010, background): “ary to atmospheric climate variables at large scales (O’Brien et al. 2000; Hawkins et al. 2003a, 2003b), Davies et al.”
Water–energy balance and the geographic pattern of species richness of western Palearctic butterflies (2003, background): “In the work reported here the study of butterfly diversity is expanded to the western Palearctic region (western/ central Europe and north Africa), and what aspects of the environment best describe geographic variation in species richness is examined.”
Cross-scale variation in species richness–environment associations (2011, background): “…the importance of heterogeneity measures, particularly elevation range, compared with climatic variables in explaining species richness (Kerr & Packer, 1997; O’Brien et al., 2000; Ruggiero & Kitzberger, 2004; Davies et al., 2007; Rahbek et al., 2007; Ruggiero & Hawkins, 2008; Field et al., 2009).”