[PDF] Top 20 Richness patterns, species distributions and the principle of extreme deconstruction

... Maxent), and this is actually a form of historical process causing a lack of high environmental ...at the same time correlated to the amount of environmental signal in ... See full document

... breakpoints, and then fits linear regressions for each piece before and after the breakpoints ...[41]. The significance of the breakpoints was tested using F tests ...For ... See full document

... constraining the studied assemblages (Chapter 2 and ...marine and terrestrial faunas supported the view that past events have limited impact on current species assemblages because ... See full document

... spatial distributions of Alchornea triplinervia and Diospyros inconstans were signifi cantly associated to the spatial distribution of species richness per sampling unit ... See full document

... that the combination of such spatial information (e.g., at the ecoregion level) with climate change projections may be of paramount importance to identify key diversity areas and to ... See full document

... evaluate the spatial patterns of species richness of terrestrial vertebrates in the Brazilian ...as the human population size and number of ... See full document

... per species, projected as their potential distributional ...with the distributional maps and latitudinal distributions of Solervicens (1987, 2005), and were found to be ... See full document

... Cacti species richness did not vary greatly among ...consider the entire extent of the temperature gradient. The greatest distance between study areas was approximately 40 km, ... See full document

... that of cluster A, which was formed by the grid squares 2, 4, 5, 6, 13, 19, and 24, thus grouping high elevation areas ...together. The vegetation of this cluster is composed of ... See full document

... investigate the macroecological patterns of the terrestrial biota of the Azorean archipelago, namely the species-range size distributions, the ... See full document

... general, and especially the Canary Islands, differs markedly from the “typical” archipelagos of the Pacific, such as Hawaii and Galapagos, in that most of the ... See full document

... RDPs and mean covariances are informative descriptors of ...patterns. The maximum and minimum values of the vector of mean covariances tt determine the ... See full document

... for the genera in RAxML ...on the CIPRES web server (www.phylo.org). We used the default settings, including a General Time Reversible (GTR) + Gamma (G) model of sequence evolution, with ... See full document

... extension of almost 3000 ...origin, the geographical characteristics of the islands vary widely in both size (ranging from 3 km 2 to more than 2000 km 2 ) and isolation (oscillating ... See full document

... Also the species composition of rotifer communities is known to change with latitude (Green ...On the other hand, hotspots of roti- fer diversity and endemicity exist in ... See full document

... in the effort invested in different places (and not the number of individuals surveyed) and (ii) misrepresentation of some geographic areas or ecological conditions, sampling ... See full document

... is the very logocentrism that he tries to efface, and I will not make any distinction between ...between the thinkable and the unthinkable, for in his intention of effacing ... See full document

... to the study of SADs. Some authors have put the emphasis on which probability density function best fits the SAD at one given spatial scale (McGill 2003a, Volkov et ...Williamson and ... See full document

... is the lack of independence between pairs of observations at given distances within a geo- graphical space, a phenomenon commonly found in ecological ...in species richness, is ... See full document

... role of the native species richness and density in ecosystem invasibility is a matter of concern for both ecologists and ...tested the hypothesis that the ... See full document