The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness.

By Robert K. Colwell, D. Lees. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Neotropical savanna ants show a reversed latitudinal gradient of species richness, with climatic drivers reflecting the forest origin of the fauna (2018, background): “Such a mid-latitudinal peak in diversity possibly represents a middomain effect (Colwell & Lees, 2000; Colwell, Rahbek, & Gotelli, 2004), caused by increasing overlap of species ranges towards the centre of the Cerrado biome.”
Modelling species diversity through species level hierarchical modelling (2005, background): “(a) geometric constraints (Colwell and Lees, 2000), (b) scaling of constrained resource acquisition (Ritchie and Olff, 1999) and (c) neutrality of species in saturated systems (Hubbell, 2001).”
GEOGRAPHICAL ECOLOGY AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL: PERSPECTIVES ON THE DIVERSITY OF NEW WORLD BATS (2002, background): “…daunting task because most mechanisms only lead to qualitative predictions that are not mutually exclusive, and because null models can give rise to latitudinal gradients in the absence of underlying environmental heterogeneity (Colwell and Hurtt 1994, Willig and Lyons 1998, Colwell and Lees 2000).”
Termite Diversity along an Amazon–Andes Elevation Gradient, Peru (2011, background): “…pattern, widely observed with increasing altitude, is the mid-elevation peak (or hump-shaped curve; Rahbek 1995, Lomolino 2001); a pattern often explained by the presence of climatic optima at mid-elevations, by the ecotone effect and/or by the middomain effect (Colwell & Lees 2000, Lomolino 2001).”
Random processes and geographic species richness patterns: why so few species in the north? (2001, methodology): “Thus we investigate whether stochastic processes can really explain a large extent of observed species richness patterns, as was suggested on the basis of previous, less realistic models (Colwell and Hurtt 1994, Willig and Lyons 1998, Colwell and Lees 2000 ).”
Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity (2021, background): “Contention about the factors underlying the general mid- elevation richness peak aside (Colwell & Lees, 2000), understanding why ferns adhere to this pattern so strongly is critical to explain variation in the group’s richness at broad scales.”
Null Versus Neutral Models: What's The Difference? (2006, background): “At the biogeographic scale, null model analyses of the mid-domain effect (Colwell and Lees 2000) typically preserve the range size frequency distribution of each species, but place the range of each species randomly within a bounded geographic domain (Colwell et al. 2004).”
Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects (2010, background): “Geographic Hypotheses The mid-domain effect hypothesis is that the diversity gradient results from the geometry of Earth and its landmasses independent of environment or history (Colwell and Hurtt 1994; Colwell and Lees 2000).”
Mechanisms in macroecology: AWOL or purloined letter? Towards a pragmatic view of mechanism (2010, background): “Colwell (Colwell and Hurtt 1994, Colwell and Lees 2000) attempted to explain the latitudinal richness gradient by placing species ranges down at random within a fi nite domain (the MDE or mid-domain eff ect).”
Pesticides reduce regional biodiversity of stream invertebrates (2013, background): “This richness is conceptually similar to richness in latitudinal, altitudinal, or marine barometric zones (31) and reflects the taxonomic pool of a large set of sites having a certain contamination level (9).”