▪ Abstract The latitudinal gradient of decreasing richness from tropical to extratropical areas
is ecology's longest recognized pattern. Nonetheless, notable exceptions to the general …

If species' ranges are randomly shuffled within a bounded geographical domain free of
environmental gradients, ranges overlap increasingly toward the center of the domain …

A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for
explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species assemblages …

Understanding the causes of spatial variation in species richness is a major research focus
of biogeography and macroecology. Gridded environmental data and species richness …

The decline of biodiversity with latitude has received great attention, but both the concise
pattern and the causes of the gradient are under strong debate. Most studies of the …

Abstract The Indo‐Australian Archipelago supports the world's richest coral reef biodiversity
hotspot. Traditional hypotheses that account for such exceptional biodiversity have …

A monotonic decline in species richness with increasing elevation has often been
considered a general pattern, but recent evidence suggests that the dominant pattern is …

In the modern world, biotic diversity is typically higher in low-latitude tropical regions where
there is abundant insolation (light and heat) and low thermal seasonality. Because these …

Patterns of species richness along latitudinal, elevational and depth gradients often exhibit a
mid‐gradient peak. Similar patterns with a mid‐domain peak in richness are produced, as a …

Evolutionary processes underlying spatial patterns in species richness remain largely
unexplored, and correlative studies lack the theoretical basis to explain these patterns in …