Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity
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in: Nature Communications, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 1, 4683, 01.09.2022.
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T1 - Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity
AU - Sabatini, Francesco Maria
AU - Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja
AU - Jandt, Ute
AU - Chytrý, Milan
AU - Field, Richard
AU - Kessler, Michael
AU - Lenoir, Jonathan
AU - Schrodt, Franziska
AU - Wiser, Susan K.
AU - Arfin Khan, Mohammed A.S.
AU - Attorre, Fabio
AU - Cayuela, Luis
AU - De Sanctis, Michele
AU - Dengler, Jürgen
AU - Haider, Sylvia
AU - Hatim, Mohamed Z.
AU - Indreica, Adrian
AU - Jansen, Florian
AU - Pauchard, Aníbal
AU - Peet, Robert K.
AU - Petřík, Petr
AU - Pillar, Valério D.
AU - Sandel, Brody
AU - Schmidt, Marco
AU - Tang, Zhiyao
AU - van Bodegom, Peter
AU - Vassilev, Kiril
AU - Violle, Cyrille
AU - Alvarez-Davila, Esteban
AU - Davidar, Priya
AU - Dolezal, Jiri
AU - Hérault, Bruno
AU - Galán-de-Mera, Antonio
AU - Jiménez, Jorge
AU - Kambach, Stephan
AU - Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian
AU - Kreft, Holger
AU - Lezama, Felipe
AU - Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
AU - Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel
AU - N’Dja, Justin K.
AU - Phillips, Oliver L.
AU - Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo
AU - Sklenář, Petr
AU - Speziale, Karina
AU - Strohbach, Ben J.
AU - Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo
AU - Wang, Hua Feng
AU - Wesche, Karsten
AU - Bruelheide, Helge
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PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (local species richness) for vascular plants at three different spatial grains, for forests and non-forests. We show that alpha diversity is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), but regional ‘scaling anomalies’ (deviations from the positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly in Eurasian temperate forests with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness and many African tropical forests with disproportionally higher coarse-grained richness. The influence of different climatic, topographic and biogeographical variables on alpha diversity also varies across grains. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.
AB - Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (local species richness) for vascular plants at three different spatial grains, for forests and non-forests. We show that alpha diversity is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), but regional ‘scaling anomalies’ (deviations from the positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly in Eurasian temperate forests with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness and many African tropical forests with disproportionally higher coarse-grained richness. The influence of different climatic, topographic and biogeographical variables on alpha diversity also varies across grains. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.
KW - Biology
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/f6da8a1d-0d18-3ee5-b243-7539e2000acf/
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z
DO - 10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 36050293
AN - SCOPUS:85137108634
VL - 13
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 4683
ER -