Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales.

By Anke Stein, Katharina Gerstner, H. Kreft. Ecology Letters, 2014

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

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Use and categorization of Light Detection and Ranging vegetation metrics in avian diversity and species distribution research (2019, background): “This is particularly relevant because individual species show strong preferences for particular habitat structures (Cody, 1985) and because species richness tends to increase with larger available niche space in structurally heterogeneous and complex habitats (Stein et al., 2014).”
Beta diversity of plants, birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure (2017, background): “D vegetation structure provide more habitats and niches and may thus harbour not only more (Stein et al., 2014) but also different species than structurally simpler landscapes (e.g., Ponisio et al., 2016), thus increasing total beta diversity.”
Origins of global mountain plant biodiversity: Testing the ‘mountain‐geobiodiversity hypothesis’ (2019, positive): “…hetero‐ geneity for species richness has been shown for mountain systems around the world (e.g. Dufour, Gadallah, Wagner, Guisan, & Buttler, 2006), as well as contributing to plant diversity in other regions (e.g. Schnitzler et al., 2011; see Stein, Gerstner, & Kreft, 2014 for a re‐ cent review).”
Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges (2016, neutral): “…landscape structure and heterogeneity (‘geodiversity’) in influencing floristic and 903 vegetation richness over a range of spatial scales (e.g. Burnett et al., 1998; Nichols et al., 1998; 904 Carranza et al., 2007; Rocchini et al., 2010; Gray, 2013; Stein et al., 2014; Hjort et al., 2012, 2015).”
Environmental predictors of species richness in forest landscapes: abiotic factors versus vegetation structure (2016, neutral): “determining species richness at large spatial scales (Currie, 1991; Kerr & Packer, 1997; Hawkins et al., 2003; Field et al., 2009; Stein et al., 2014).”
The impact of even‐aged and uneven‐aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests (2018, background): “At larger spatial scales, the heterogeneity–diversity relationship may still apply (Stein et al., 2014).”