Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

0561347 - BÚ 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Sabatini, F. M. - Jiménez-Alfaro, B. - Jandt, U. - Chytrý, M. - Field, R. - Kessler, M. - Lenoir, J. - Schrodt, F. - Wiser, S. K. - Khan, M. A. S. A. - Attorre, F. - Cayuela, L. - De Sanctis, M. - Dengler, J. - Haider, S. - Hatim, M. Z. - Indreica, A. - Jansen, F. - Pauchard, A. - Peet, R. K. - Petřík, Petr - Pillar, V. D. - Sandel, B. - Schmidt, M. - Tang, Z. - van Bodegom, P. - Vassilev, K. - Violle, C. - Alvarez-Davila, E. - Davidar, P. - Doležal, Jiří - Hérault, B. - Galán-de-Mera, A. … Total 50 authors
Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity.
Nature Communications. Roč. 13, č. 1 (2022), č. článku 4683. E-ISSN 2041-1723
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTAUSA18007; GA ČR(CZ) GA21-26883S
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : alpha diversity * global * plants
OECD category: Ecology
Impact factor: 16.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13513

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.bal change effects on biodiversity.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0334690