作者
William F Laurance, D Carolina Useche, Luke P Shoo, Sebastian K Herzog, Michael Kessler, Federico Escobar, Gunnar Brehm, Jan C Axmacher, I-Ching Chen, Lucrecia Arellano Gámez, Peter Hietz, Konrad Fiedler, Tomasz Pyrcz, Jan Wolf, Christopher L Merkord, Catherine Cardelus, Andrew R Marshall, Claudine Ah-Peng, Gregory H Aplet, M del Coro Arizmendi, William J Baker, John Barone, Carsten A Brühl, Rainer W Bussmann, Daniele Cicuzza, Gerald Eilu, Mario E Favila, Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp, Jürgen Homeier, Johanna Hurtado, Jill Jankowski, Gustavo Kattán, Jürgen Kluge, Thorsten Krömer, David C Lees, Marcus Lehnert, John T Longino, Jon Lovett, Patrick H Martin, Bruce D Patterson, Richard G Pearson, Kelvin S-H Peh, Barbara Richardson, Michael Richardson, Michael J Samways, Feyera Senbeta, Thomas B Smith, Timothy MA Utteridge, James E Watkins, Rohan Wilson, Stephen E Williams, Chris D Thomas
发表日期
2011/1/1
期刊
Biological Conservation
卷号
144
期号
1
页码范围
548-557
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Tropical species with narrow elevational ranges may be thermally specialized and vulnerable to global warming. Local studies of distributions along elevational gradients reveal small-scale patterns but do not allow generalizations among geographic regions or taxa. We critically assessed data from 249 studies of species elevational distributions in the American, African, and Asia-Pacific tropics. Of these, 150 had sufficient data quality, sampling intensity, elevational range, and freedom from serious habitat disturbance to permit robust across-study comparisons. We found four main patterns: (1) species classified as elevational specialists (upper- or lower-zone specialists) are relatively more frequent in the American than Asia-Pacific tropics, with African tropics being intermediate; (2) elevational specialists are rare on islands, especially oceanic and smaller continental islands, largely due to a paucity of upper-zone …
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