Vegetation patterns along a rainfall gradient

Neotropical peatland methane emissions along a vegetation and biogeochemical gradient

Tropical wetlands are thought to be the most important source of interannual variability in atmospheric methane (CH4) concentrations, yet sparse data prevents them from being incorporated into Earth system models. This problem is particularly pronounced in the neotropics where bottom-up models based on water table depth are incongruent with top-down inversion models suggesting unaccounted sinks...

Variability of alder-dominated forest vegetation along a latitudinal gradient

Plant species establishment and survival along environmental gradients have commonly been attributed to different environmental niches, life-history and adaptive traits [1]. Effective phenotype adaptation of alder species to extreme soil conditions allows them to form canopy-closed forest vegetation on alluvial and marshland localities. Alder forests represent azonal plant communities developed...

Spatial patterns of vegetation and soil fertility along a grazing gradient in a desert steppe in Inner Mongolia, China

Multitaxonomic Diversity Patterns along a Desert Riparian–Upland Gradient

Riparian areas are noted for their high biodiversity, but this has rarely been tested across a wide range of taxonomic groups. We set out to describe species richness, species abundance, and community similarity patterns for 11 taxonomic groups (forbs & grasses, shrubs, trees, solpugids, spiders, scarab beetles, butterflies, lizards, birds, rodents, and mammalian carnivores) individually and fo...

Bacterial diversity patterns along a gradient of primary productivity

M. Claire Horner-Devine*, Mathew A. Leibold, Val H. Smith and Brendan J. M. Bohannan Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 6063, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 6604, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract P...