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Title: | Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity |
Author(s): | Sabatini, Francesco Maria Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja Jandt, Ute Chytrý, Milan Field, Richard Kessler, Michael Lenoir, Jonathan Schrodt, Franziska Wiser, Susan K. Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S. Attorre, Fabio Cayuela, Luis Sanctis, Michele Dengler, Jürgen Haider, Sylvia Simone Rebekka Hatim, Mohamed Z. Indreica, Adrian Jansen, Florian Pauchard, Aníbal Peet, Robert K. Petřík, Petr Pillar, Valério D. Sandel, Brody Schmidt, Marco Tang, Zhiyao Bodegom, Peter Vassilev, Kiril Violle, Cyrille Alvarez-Davila, Esteban Davidar, Priya Doležal, Jiří Hérault, Bruno Galán-de-Mera, Antonio Jiménez, Jorge Kambach, Stephan Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian Kreft, Holger Lezama, Felipe Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel N’Dja, Justin K. Phillips, Oliver L. Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo Sklenář, Petr Speziale, Karina Strohbach, Ben J. Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo Wang, Hua-Feng Wesche, Karsten Bruelheide, Helge |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Abstract: | 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. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity. |
URI: | https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/103609 http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/101662 |
Open Access: | Open access publication |
License: | (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
Journal Title: | Nature Communications |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
Publisher Place: | [London] |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 1 |
Original Publication: | 10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Publikationen der MLU |
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