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Peters, Marcell K. ; Hemp, Andreas ; Appelhans, Tim ; Behler, Christina ; Classen, Alice ; Detsch, Florian ; Ensslin, Andreas ; Ferger, Stefan W. ; Frederiksen, Sara B. ; Gebert, Friederike ; Haas, Michael ; Helbig-Bonitz, Maria ; Hemp, Claudia ; Kindeketa, William J. ; Mwangomo, Ephraim ; Ngereza, Christine ; Otte, Insa ; Röder, Juliane ; Rutten, Gemma ; Schellenberger Costa, David ; Tardanico, Joseph ; Zancolli, Giulia ; Deckert, Jürgen ; Eardley, Connal D. ; Peters, Ralph S. ; Rödel, Mark-Oliver ; Schleuning, Matthias ; Ssymank, Axel ; Kakengi, Victor ; Zhang, Jie ; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin ; Brandl, Roland ; Kalko, Elisabeth K. V. ; Kleyer, Michael ; Nauss, Thomas ; Tschapka, Marco ; Fischer, Markus ; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf:
Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level.
In: Nature Communications.
Vol. 7
(2016)
.
- No. 13736.
ISSN 2041-1723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13736
Abstract in another language
The factors determining gradients of biodiversity are a fundamental yet unresolved topic in ecology. While diversity gradients have been analysed for numerous single taxa, progress towards general explanatory models has been hampered by limitations in the phylogenetic coverage of past studies. By parallel sampling of 25 major plant and animal taxa along a 3.7 km elevational gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro, we quantify cross-taxon consensus in diversity gradients and evaluate predictors of diversity from single taxa to a multi-taxa community level. While single taxa show complex distribution patterns and respond to different environmental factors, scaling up diversity to the community level leads to an unambiguous support for temperature as the main predictor of species richness in both plants and animals. Our findings illuminate the influence of taxonomic coverage for models of diversity gradients and point to the importance of temperature for diversification and species coexistence in plant and animal communities.
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| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Research Institutions Research Institutions > Research Centres Research Institutions > Research Centres > Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research- BayCEER Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Biology > Chair Animal Ecology II - Evolutionary Animal Ecology Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Biology |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 500 Science |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2020 08:40 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 12:48 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/54008 |