Shapes and functions of species–area curves: a review of possible models

By E. Tjørve. 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Which function describes the species–area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation (2009, methodology): “A variety of completely different processes are capable of producing power-law SARs, a conclusion that agrees with that of Lawton (1999), who argues that the most robust macroecological patterns are those that can be generated by several different mechanisms.”
Shapes and functions of species–area curves (II): a review of new models and parameterizations (2009, methodology): “The 20 bivariate models reviewed in this paper and in my earlier paper (Tjørve, 2003) are all listed in Appendix 1.”
Species–area relationships of primates in tropical forest fragments: a global analysis (2005, methodology): “Doherty Many forms of species-area analysis have been applied in fragmentation and insularization studies (Tjorve 2003).”
Ecological Models and Data in R (2008, methodology): “The (unnamed) function y = (a + bx)/(1 + cx) has been used to describe species-area curves (Flather, 1996; Tjørve, 2003).”
Anthropogenic modulators of species–area relationships in Neotropical primates: a continental‐scale analysis of fragmented forest landscapes (2013, background): “In fact, SARs remain the most frequent approach in predicting biodiversity erosion in fragmented environments, despite outstanding uncertainties about the appropriateness of model fits (Lomolino, 2000; Tjorve, 2003, 2009; Triantis et al., 2012).”
No biogeographical pattern for a root-associated fungal species complex (2011, background): “The assumption is that more species will be detected as the sampling area increases in size (Tjørve, 2003).”
Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “that we should examine the fit of theoretical (mechanistic) models against empirical data sets rather than setting out to find the best straight-line fit through the data (Tjørve, 2003).”
Six types of species‐area curves (2003, background): “The best mathematical function for the shape of the species-area curve has been debated over the years (He & Legendre, 1996; Tjorve, 2003).”
Rarefaction method for assessing plant species diversity on a regional scale (2004, methodology): “According to Tjørve (2002b), recent research has suggested that species area curves are sigmoid (e.g. logistic function, Hill function, or Lomolino function) with an upper asymptote (He and Legendre 1996, Lomolino 2000).”
Island biogeography of the Mediterranean sea: the species–area relationship for terrestrial isopods (2005, background): “It is conceivable that in cases like this, ‘the better fit of sigmoid curves does not necessarily prove sigmoid relationships’ (Tjørve, 2003), with the better fit simply being a reflection of the flexibility of a model with a higher number of parameters.”
Factors Associated with Grassland Bird Species Richness: The Relative Roles of Grassland Area, Landscape Structure, and Prey (2006, methodology): “The two most commonly used functional forms (for review see Tjørve 2003) for this relationship are the power model (Arrhenius 1921) and the exponential model (Gleason 1922).”
Patterns of species richness on very small islands: the plants of the Aegean archipelago (2006, methodology): “In the search for the best mathematical description of the SAR, a variety of models, linear and nonlinear, have been proposed (see review by Scheiner, 2003; Tjørve, 2003).”
A flexible multi-scale approach for standardised recording of plant species richness patterns (2009, unknown): “Either this can be done by selecting the most suitable model from the wide range of different function types suggested (e.g. Tjørve, 2003; Dengler, 2009) on the basis of adequate selection procedures (see Dengler, 2009) or the fitted parameters of these models can be used as biodiversity indicators…”
Biogeographical determinants for total and endemic species richness in a continental archipelago (2010, background): “Identifying the best mathematical formula to relate biogeographical variables to diversity measures is far from simple, even for well studied factors like island area (for example see Tjørve 2003; Scheiner 2003).”
Scale‐dependence in species‐area relationships (2005, background): “Tjorve (2003) reviews a number of alternative models for the shape of SARs.”