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Latitudinal gradient in species richness
What is the gradient? Amongst the earliest remarked, and best documented, of broad-scale spatial patterns of life on Earth is a trend for more species to be found towards lower latitudes. The latitudinal gradient in species richness is such that most extant eukaryote, perhaps also prokaryote, species are found in the tropics. Even when counted over quite small areas in which it is present, the ...
متن کاملTesting a mechanistic explanation for the latitudinal gradient in mammalian species richness across North America
Hypothesis: Spatial variation in species richness is caused by increased maintenance metabolic costs that increase habitat overlap and decrease species richness. Organisms: Non-volant mammals in North America. Results: The latitudinal gradient in species richness could be completely explained by variation in maintenance metabolic costs. Additional spatial variation in species richness was posit...
متن کاملThe latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis.
Plant diversity, like that of most other taxonomic groups, peaks in the tropics, where climatic conditions are warm and wet, and it declines toward the temperate and polar zones as conditions become colder and drier, with more seasonally variable temperatures. Climate and evolutionary history are often considered competing explanations for the latitudinal gradient, but they are linked by the ev...
متن کاملLatitudinal gradient in 2D:4D.
The potential dependence of second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) on latitude has been discussed in recent papers in this journal (Hurd & van Anders, 2007; Loehlin, McFadden, Medland, & Martin, 2006, 2007). Such an association was first suggested by Manning (2002), who proposed that 2D:4D was highest at intermediate latitudes and lowest at the equator and at high latitudes. In their Fig. 1, Hurd...
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Latitudinal species diversity gradients (LSDGs) in the Northern Hemisphere are the most well established biogeographic patterns on Earth. Despite long-standing interest in LSDGs as a central problem in ecology, their explanation remains uncertain. In terrestrial as well as coastal and pelagic marine ecosystems, these poleward declines in diversity typically have been represented and interpreted...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.013