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Climatic drivers prevail in montane and lowland Odonata latitudinal diversity gradients, but human modification erodes lowland patterns

Ecography, EarlyView.
Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs) arise from the interplay of historical, ecological, and evolutionary processes, yet these drivers may differ across landforms. Mountains, with steep elevational and climatic gradients, often sustain distinct diversity dynamics compared with adjacent lowlands, where vertical climatic gradients are weak and human ...
Zhenyuan Liu, Bo‐Ping Han, Haomiao Zhang, Ramiro Martín‐Devasa, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Janne Soininen   +5 more
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Island biogeography of plants and humans

, 2022
Islands have always attracted considerable research effort due to their unique geography and biota. However, the biogeography of islands still presents substantial challenges. For instance, islands often sustain high rates of plant invasions.
Fabio Mologni (8512989)
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Inverse sky islands: lowland river valleys drive microbial divergence while high elevations select for convergence in massive mountain ecosystems

Ecography, EarlyView.
Mountain ecosystems are often interpreted through the lens of the ‘sky island' model, where high‐elevation habitats function as isolated archipelagos. However, this model's applicability to massive, topographically complex mountain ranges where highlands are continuous and lowlands are fragmented remains untested.
Yazhou Zhang, J. Aaron Hogan, Jianjun Wang, Wenguang Sun, Yaojun Ye, Xin Liu, Minshu Song, Hang Sun   +7 more
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Differential influences of island biogeographic effects on the diversity among three plant life-forms

Global Ecology and Conservation
Traditional island biogeography posits that area and remoteness are key determinants of species richness. However, this theory is challenged by recent changes in species dispersal patterns caused by human activity and climate change.
Saiqiang Li, Qinqin Pan, Xiaodong Yang, Yongchao Gao, Mingshan Xu   +4 more
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The concerted emergence of well-known spatial and temporal ecological patterns in an evolutionary food web model in space

Scientific Reports, 2021
Ecological systems show a variety of characteristic patterns of biodiversity in space and time. It is a challenge for theory to find models that can reproduce and explain the observed patterns. Since the advent of island biogeography these models revolve
Michaela Hamm, Barbara Drossel
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Speciation and endemism under the model of island biogeography

, 2009
: Speciation has been considered as a primary process contributing to species diversity, but its contribution to the diversity of local communities has not been fully appreciated. Based on the theory of classic island biogeography, we derived a model for
Chen, X. Y., He, F. L.
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Island biogeography, the effects of taxonomic effort and the importance of island niche diversity to single-island endemic species [PDF]

, 2013
Island biogeography theory is fundamentally reliant on measuring the number of species per island and hence has taxonomy at its foundation. Yet as a metric used in tests of the theory, island species richness (S) has varied with time according to the ...
Cavers, Stephen, Gray, Alan
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Scrutinizing the Wallacean shortfall: global gaps in snake occurrence data across space and environment

Ecography, EarlyView.
Occurrence records are fundamental for ecological and evolutionary research, providing key information on species' geographic ranges. However, these records are often taxonomically, spatially, and temporally biased, requiring caution in their use. Here, we analysed the spatial coverage of occurrence records for over 3500 snake species worldwide to ...
Lívia Frateles, Cristina Ronquillo, Gabriel Nakamura, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz‐Filho, Richard James Ladle, Joaquín Hortal   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of amphibian diversity and its influencing factors in the coastal islands of southern Zhejiang [PDF]

Nature Conservation
The theory of island biogeography posits that geographical features play a key regulatory role in shaping biodiversity. As a dispersal-limited group, amphibians are particularly sensitive to island effects.
Wenlong Qi, Jianxiong Li, Cheng Qin, Lei Xie, Shuran Li, Yongpu Zhang   +5 more
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Association of insularity and body condition to cloacal bacteria prevalence in a small shorebird.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Do islands harbour less diverse disease communities than mainland? The island biogeography theory predicts more diverse communities on mainland than on islands due to more niches, more diverse habitats and availability of greater range of hosts.
José O Valdebenito, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Macarena Castro, Alejandro Pérez-Hurtado, Gustavo Tejera, Tamás Székely, Naerhulan Halimubieke, Julia Schroeder, Jordi Figuerola   +8 more
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