Marine biodiversity, biogeography, deep-sea gradients, and conservation

MJ Costello, C Chaudhary - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
The oceans appear ideal for biodiversity—they have unlimited water, a large area, are well
connected, have less extreme temperatures than on land, and contain more phyla and …

Amphibian community structure along elevation gradients in eastern Nepal Himalaya

JR Khatiwada, T Zhao, Y Chen, B Wang, F Xie… - BMC ecology, 2019 - Springer
Background Species richness and composition pattern of amphibians along elevation
gradients in eastern Nepal Himalaya are rarely investigated. This is a first ever study in the …

Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects

SB Archibald, WH Bossert, DR Greenwood… - Paleobiology, 2010 - cambridge.org
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 …

Deep-sea origin and depth colonization associated with phenotypic innovations in scleractinian corals

AN Campoy, MM Rivadeneira, CE Hernández… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The deep sea (> 200 m) is home to a surprisingly rich biota, which in some cases
compares to that found in shallow areas. Scleractinian corals are an example of this–they …

An inverse latitudinal gradient of diversity of peracarid crustaceans along the Pacific Coast of South America: out of the deep south

MM Rivadeneira, M Thiel… - Global Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To understand the ecological and historical/evolutionary processes underlying an
inverse latitudinal gradient of richness (LGR) using crustacean peracarid species as a …

Orchid species richness along elevational and environmental gradients in Yunnan, China

SB Zhang, WY Chen, JL Huang, YF Bi, XF Yang - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The family Orchidaceae is not only one of the most diverse families of flowering plants, but
also one of the most endangered plant taxa. Therefore, understanding how its species …

Latitudinal variation in global range‐size of aquatic macrophyte species shows evidence for a Rapoport effect

K Murphy, P Carvalho, A Efremov… - Freshwater …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To test hypotheses concerning the applicability of the Rapoport effect (RE:“species that
occur at higher latitudes tend to have greater geographical range‐size than species which …

巴音布鲁克高寒草甸物种多样性与系统发育多样性沿海拔梯度分布格局及驱动因子.

吕自立, 刘彬, 常凤, 马紫荆… - Acta Prataculturae …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
沿海拔梯度研究植物群落物种多样性和系统发育多样性可以明晰环境条件对群落构建的影响,
可为深入了解群落构建机制提供帮助. 选取巴音布鲁克高寒草甸为研究区, 针对研究区植物群落 …

Environmental filtering along a bathymetric gradient: A metabarcoding meta‐analysis of free‐living nematodes

L Macheriotou, S Derycke, A Vanreusel - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying and understanding patterns of biological diversity is crucial at a time when even
the most remote and pristine marine ecosystems are threatened by resource exploitation …

Saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi exhibit contrasting richness patterns along elevational gradients in cool-temperate montane forests

N Shigyo, T Hirao - Fungal Ecology, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence suggests that elevational gradients of soil fungal richness are highly
variable, but few studies have examined how diversity components of each guild contribute …