Journal article
Authors list: Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja; Jandt, Ute; Chytry, Milan; Field, Richard; Kessler, Michael; Lenoir, Jonathan; Schrodt, Franziska; Wiser, Susan K.; Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arfin; Attorre, Fabio; Cayuela, Luis; De Sanctis, Michele; Dengler, Jurgen; Haider, Sylvia; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Indreica, Adrian; Jansen, Florian; Pauchard, Anibal; Peet, Robert K.; Petrik, Petr; Pillar, Valerio D.; Sandel, Brody; Schmidt, Marco; Tang, Zhiyao; van Bodegom, Peter; Vassilev, Kiril; Violle, Cyrille; Alvarez-Davila, Esteban; Davidar, Priya; Dolezal, Jiri; Herault, Bruno; Galan-de-Mera, Antonio; Jimenez, Jorge; Kambach, Stephan; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Kreft, Holger; Lezama, Felipe; Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo; Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo; N'Dja, Justin K.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo; Sklenar, Petr; Speziale, Karina; Strohbach, Ben J.; Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez; Wang, Hua-Feng; Wesche, Karsten; Bruelheide, Helge
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Nature Communications
Volume number: 13
Issue number: 1
eISSN: 2041-1723
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z
Publisher: Nature Research
Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (local species richness) for vascular plants at three different spatial grains, for forests and non-forests. We show that alpha diversity is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), but regional 'scaling anomalies' (deviations from the positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly in Eurasian temperate forests with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness and many African tropical forests with disproportionally higher coarse-grained richness. The influence of different climatic, topographic and biogeographical variables on alpha diversity also varies across grains. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity. Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.
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Harvard Citation style: Sabatini, F., Jimenez-Alfaro, B., Jandt, U., Chytry, M., Field, R., Kessler, M., et al. (2022) Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity, Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 4683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z
APA Citation style: Sabatini, F., Jimenez-Alfaro, B., Jandt, U., Chytry, M., Field, R., Kessler, M., Lenoir, J., Schrodt, F., Wiser, S., Khan, M., Attorre, F., Cayuela, L., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Haider, S., Hatim, M., Indreica, A., Jansen, F., Pauchard, A., ...Bruelheide, H. (2022). Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity. Nature Communications. 13(1), Article 4683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z
Keywords
COMMUNITY DIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND VEGETATION; NATIONAL PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL DATABASE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIPS; TROPICAL EVERGREEN FOREST; VEGETATION-PLOT DATABASE
