Mountains are key features of the Earth's surface and host a substantial proportion of the
world's species. However, the links between the evolution and distribution of biodiversity …

Community structure and ecosystem processes often vary along elevational gradients. Their
responses to elevation are commonly driven by changes in temperature, and many …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

It is often claimed that we do not understand the forces driving the global diversity gradient.
However, an extensive literature suggests that contemporary climate constrains terrestrial …

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

Topographically complex regions on land and in the oceans feature hotspots of biodiversity
that reflect geological influences on ecological and evolutionary processes. Over geologic …

Aim Spatial autocorrelation in ecological data can inflate Type I errors in statistical analyses.
There has also been a recent claim that spatial autocorrelation generates 'red herrings' …

The latitudinal diversity gradient is the largest scale, and longest known, pattern in ecology.
We examined the applicability of three versions of the energy hypothesis, the habitat …

Because most macroecological and biodiversity data are spatially autocorrelated, special
tools for describing spatial structures and dealing with hypothesis testing are usually …

It is widely believed that the diversity of plants influences the diversity of animals, and this
should be particularly true of herbivores. We examine this supposition at a moderate spatial …