When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect

By R. Dunn, C. McCain, N. Sanders. 2007

97 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. C. McCain
2. Robert K. Colwell
3. N. Sanders
4. Gunnar Brehm
5. R. Dunn
6. C. Rahbek
7. M. Fitzpatrick
8. K. Fiedler

In Ecology

1. C. McCain
2. Robert K. Colwell
3. C. Rahbek
4. R. Dunn
5. N. Sanders
6. Gunnar Brehm
7. M. Fitzpatrick
8. F. Lei

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. McCain
2. Robert K. Colwell
3. Gunnar Brehm
4. K. Fiedler
5. R. Dunn
6. N. Sanders
7. C. Rahbek
8. M. Fitzpatrick

Citations in the corpus

• Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains (2007, background): “Mid-domain effect null models have received increasing attention as potential explanations for patterns of species richness along a variety of domains (e.g. Colwell et al., 2004; Dunn et al., 2006).”
• Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths (2017, background): “If unimodal at all, empirical patterns are often skewed, with their maximum richness located at elevations lower than the centre of the gradient (contrary to predictions based on a pure MDE; Dunn et al., 2007; McCain & Grytnes, 2010).”
• Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, methodology): “For most vertebrate groups and other taxa examined so far (e.g. Dunn et al., 2007), elevational patterns are not directly consistent with MDE.”
• Distribution pattern of trees along an elevation gradient of Eastern Himalaya, India (2011, unknown): “It is difficult to determine the circumstances for when the MDE does, and does not, account for variation in species richness (Jetz and Rahbek, 2002; Dunn et al., 2007).”
• Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013, background): “…the distribution of endemic species may be more affected by geometric constraints and local history, or perhaps more constrained by evolutionary adaptations to local conditions than more widespread, non-endemic species (Jetz & Rahbek, 2002; Colwell et al., 2004; Dunn et al., 2007; Wu et al., 2013).”