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A consistent species richness-climate relationship for oaks across the Northern Hemisphere
- Source :
- Xu, X, Dimitrov, D, Shrestha, N, Rahbek, C & Wang, Z 2019, ' A consistent species richness-climate relationship for oaks across the Northern Hemisphere ', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1051-1066 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12913, Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Aim: Although the effects of climate on species richness are known, regional pro‐ cesses may lead to different species richness–climate relationships across continents resulting in species richness anomalies, especially for tropical groups. Phylogenetic niche conservatism may also influence species richness–climate relationships of dif‐ ferent lineages. Here, we tested whether regional effects also exist for temperate lineages using the genus Quercus. Location: Northern Hemisphere. Time period: Present day. Major taxa studied: Quercus (Fagaceae). Methods: We used a dated phylogeny and distribution data for Quercus to evaluate its global species richness patterns and phylogenetic niche conservatism. To evaluate the consistency in species richness–climate relationships across continents of the genus Quercus as a whole and the temperate subgenus Quercus, we conducted analy‐ ses of covariance with continent as the categorical variable and climate variables as the covariate. We calibrated four widely used models using the global data or data from each continent separately and evaluated the predictive power of each model for different continents using the root mean squared error. Results: The relationships between species richness and climate were not signifi‐ cantly different among continents for both the genus Quercus as a whole and the subgenus Quercus. Unlike the models based on European data, those based on North American and eastern Asian data predicted both the global species richness and the richness in other continents. The species richness of a subtropical subgenus Cyclobalanopsis was most influenced by water availability, while that of a temperate subgenus Quercus was most influenced by environmental temperature. Main conclusions: In contrast to the subtropical subgenus Cyclobalanopsis, our results showed a consistent richness–climate relationship and absence of regional effects on species richness across continents for the temperate subgenus Quercus, likely suggest‐ ing that the species richness of temperate lineages, for example subgenus Quercus, may have reached equilibrium with the contemporary climate in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
historical effects
water
Subtropics
eastern Asia
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Quercus
Phylogenetic niche conservatism
Temperate climate
climate
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology
biology
regional effects
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
richness anomaly
Northern Hemisphere
biology.organism_classification
niche conservatism
Fagaceae
Taxon
Geography
North America
Species richness
Subgenus
energy
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1466822X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Xu, X, Dimitrov, D, Shrestha, N, Rahbek, C & Wang, Z 2019, ' A consistent species richness-climate relationship for oaks across the Northern Hemisphere ', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1051-1066 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12913, Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3ea742a6c0d4d6ed4c413f8dde722e6f