期刊
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
卷 24, 期 9, 页码 1072-1083出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12337
关键词
Biodiversity; climate; grain size; habitat diversity; heterogeneity measures; macroecology; spatial scale; topography; vegetation structure
资金
- German Research Foundation
- University of Gottingen in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative
- Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
AimSpatial environmental heterogeneity (EH) is an important driver of species richness, affecting species coexistence, persistence and diversification. EH has been widely studied in ecology and evolution and quantified in many different ways, with a strong bias towards a few common measures of EH like elevation range. Here, we calculate 51 measures of EH within grid cells world-wide across three spatial grains to investigate similarities and differences among these measures. Moreover, we compare the association between species richness of terrestrial mammals and each EH measure to assess the impact of methodological choices on EH-richness relationships found by standard macroecological modelling approaches. LocationGlobal. MethodsWe derive 51 measures of EH from nine variables related to the five subject areas land cover, vegetation, climate, soil and topography, using nine calculation methods. We first explore differences among these EH measures with correlation and principal components analyses. We then analyse the relationship between mammal species richness and each EH measure alone and while accounting for effects of current climate, regional biogeographic history and human influence. We assess the impact of subject area and method of calculation of EH measures on model support using conditional inference trees. ResultsDespite some redundancy, correlations (r(s)=-0.45 to 1.00, median 0.35) and spatial patterns indicate clear differences between the EH measures. We find clear effects of subject area and calculation method on the importance of EH measures for mammal species richness. Measures of climatic and topographic EH and measures calculated as counts and ranges (as against, for example, coefficient of variation) receive particularly high model support across all spatial grains. Main conclusionsThe outcome of broad-scale EH-richness studies is greatly determined by methodological decisions on calculation of measures and statistical analysis. These decisions should therefore be made carefully with regard to the hypothesis and mechanism of interest.
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