Functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are filtered by different biotic factors on tropical mountains

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar M. Hanz ◽  
Katrin Böhning-Gaese ◽  
Stefan W. Ferger ◽  
Susanne A. Fritz ◽  
Eike Lena Neuschulz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Biotic Factors ◽  
Tropical Mountains ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Functional And Phylogenetic Diversity

Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor A. Weideman ◽  
Jasper A. Slingsby ◽  
Robert L. Thomson ◽  
Bernard T. W. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
African Savanna ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Functional And Phylogenetic Diversity

Use of environmental DNA in assessment of fish functional and phylogenetic diversity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Marques ◽  
Paul Castagné ◽  
Andréa Polanco Fernández ◽  
Giomar Helena Borrero‐Pérez ◽  
Régis Hocdé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Environmental Dna ◽  
Functional And Phylogenetic Diversity

scholarly journals Climate and plant community diversity in space and time

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (9) ◽  
pp. 4464-4470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Harrison ◽  
Marko J. Spasojevic ◽  
Daijiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Community Diversity ◽  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Drying Trend ◽  
Functional And Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Over Time

Climate strongly shapes plant diversity over large spatial scales, with relatively warm and wet (benign, productive) regions supporting greater numbers of species. Unresolved aspects of this relationship include what causes it, whether it permeates to community diversity at smaller spatial scales, whether it is accompanied by patterns in functional and phylogenetic diversity as some hypotheses predict, and whether it is paralleled by climate-driven changes in diversity over time. Here, studies of Californian plants are reviewed and new analyses are conducted to synthesize climate–diversity relationships in space and time. Across spatial scales and organizational levels, plant diversity is maximized in more productive (wetter) climates, and these consistent spatial relationships are mirrored in losses of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity over time during a recent climatic drying trend. These results support the tolerance and climatic niche conservatism hypotheses for climate–diversity relationships, and suggest there is some predictability to future changes in diversity in water-limited climates.

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