
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
2022; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 6; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x
ISSN2397-334X
AutoresJingjing Liang, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Nicolas Picard, Mo Zhou, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Douglass F. Jacobs, Peter B. Reich, Thomas W. Crowther, G.J. Nabuurs, Sergio de‐Miguel, Jingyun Fang, Christopher W. Woodall, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Tommaso Jucker, Jean‐François Bastin, Susan K. Wiser, Ferry Slik, Bruno Hérault, Giorgio Alberti, Gunnar Keppel, Geerten Hengeveld, Pierre L. Ibisch, Carlos Alberto Silva, Hans ter Steege, Pablo Luís Peri, David A. Coomes, Eric B. Searle, Klaus von Gadow, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Akane Abbasi, Meinrad Abegg, Yves C. Adou Yao, Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Jan Altman, Esteban Álvarez‐Dávila, Juan Gabriél Álvarez‐González, Luciana F. Alves, Bienvenu H.K. Amani, Christian Amani, Christian Ammer, Bhély Angoboy Ilondea, Clara Antón‐Fernández, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Akomian Fortuné Azihou, Johan A. Baard, Timothy R. Baker, Radomir Bałazy, Meredith L. Bastian, Rodrigue Batumike, Marijn Bauters, Hans Beeckman, Nithanel Mikael Hendrik Benu, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Jan Bogaert, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Francis Q. Brearley, Jaime Briseno-Reyes, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Erwin Bulte, Ann Christine Catlin, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. César, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Gabriel Dalla Colletta, José Javier Corral‐Rivas, Aníbal Cuchietti, Aida Cuní‐Sanchez, Javid Ahmad Dar, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Thalès de Haulleville, Mathieu Decuyper, Sylvain Delabye, Géraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, John Diisi, Tran Van Do, Jiří Doležal, Aurélie Dourdain, Graham Durrheim, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Teresa J. Eyre, Tom M. Fayle, Lethicia Flavine N. Feunang, Leena Finér, Markus Fischer, Jonas Fridman, Lorenzo Frizzera, André Luís de Gasper, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, M. Socorro González‐Elizondo, Lev Gorenstein, Richard Habonayo, Olivier J. Hardy, David J. Harris, Andy Hector, Andreas Hemp, Martin Herold, Annika Hillers, Wannes Hubau, Thomas Ibanez, Nobuo Imai, Gérard Imani, Andrzej M. Jagodziński, Štěpán Janeček, Vivian Kvist Johannsen, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Blaise Jumbam, Louis-Paul Roger Banoho Kabelong, Goytom Abraha Kahsay, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Justin Kassi, Elizabeth Kearsley, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer‐Rojas, Mohammed Latif Khan, John N. Kigomo, Hyun Seok Kim, Carine Klauberg, Yannick Klomberg, Henn Korjus, S. Kothandaraman, Florian Kraxner, Amit Kumar, Relawan Kuswandi, Mait Lang, Michael J. Lawes, Rodrigo Vieira Leite, Geoffrey Lentner, Simon L. Lewis, Moses Libalah, Janvier Lisingo, Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano, Huicui Lu, Н. В. Лукина, Anne Mette Lykke, Vincent Maicher, Brian Maitner, Éric Marcon, Andrew R. Marshall, Emanuel H. Martin, О. В. Мартыненко, Faustin M. Mbayu, Mũsingo Tito E. Mbuvi, Jorge A. Meave, Cory Merow, Stanisław Miścicki, Vanessa S. Moreno, Albert Morera, Sharif A. Mukul, Jörg Müller, Agustinus Murdjoko, María Guadalupe Nava‐Miranda, Litonga Elias Ndive, Victor J. Neldner, Radovan Nevenić, Louis N. Nforbelie, Michael L. Ngoh, Anny Estelle N’Guessan, Michael R. Ngugi, Alain Senghor K. Ngute, Emile Narcisse N. Njila, Melanie C. Nyako, Thomas O. Ochuodho, Jacek Oleksyn, Alain Paquette, E. I. Parfenova, Minjee Park, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, María Teresa Fernández Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Martina Pollastrini, Lourens Poorter, John R. Poulsen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Gonçalves Rolim, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Khosro Sagheb‐Talebi, Purabi Saikia, Moses N. Sainge, Christian Salas, Antonello Salis, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schöngart, Vladimír Šebeň, Giacomo Sellan, Federico Selvi, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Douglas Sheil, А. Shvidenko, Plínio Sist, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Somaiah Sundarapandian, Miroslav Svoboda, Mike D. Swaine, Natália Targhetta, N. M. Tchebakova, Liam Trethowan, Robert Tropek, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Peter M. Umunay, V. А. Usoltsev, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Riccardo Valentini, Fernando Valladares, Fons van der Plas, Daniel José Vega-Nieva, Hans Verbeeck, Hélder Viana, Alexander Christian Vibrans, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Jason Vleminckx, Catherine E. Waite, Huifang Wang, Eric Katembo Wasingya, Chemuku Wekesa, Bertil Westerlund, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Tomasz Zawiła‐Niedźwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Jun Zhu, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Zhi‐Xin Zhu, Irié C. Zo‐Bi, Cang Hui,
Tópico(s)Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
ResumoThe latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain LDG, but rigorous tests of the drivers of LDGs have been limited by a lack of high-quality global species richness data. Here we produce a high-resolution (0.025° × 0.025°) map of local tree species richness using a global forest inventory database with individual tree information and local biophysical characteristics from ~1.3 million sample plots. We then quantify drivers of local tree species richness patterns across latitudes. Generally, annual mean temperature was a dominant predictor of tree species richness, which is most consistent with the metabolic theory of biodiversity (MTB). However, MTB underestimated LDG in the tropics, where high species richness was also moderated by topographic, soil and anthropogenic factors operating at local scales. Given that local landscape variables operate synergistically with bioclimatic factors in shaping the global LDG pattern, we suggest that MTB be extended to account for co-limitation by subordinate drivers. Examining drivers of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient in a global database of local tree species richness, the authors show that co-limitation by multiple environmental and anthropogenic factors causes steeper increases in richness with latitude in tropical versus temperate and boreal zones.
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