Biodiversity and its energetic and thermal controls

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11620%2F12%3A10127771" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11620/12:10127771 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Biodiversity and its energetic and thermal controls
Original language description
1. Biological diversity is affected by a multitude of evolutionary and ecological processes, but diversity patterns are quite universal across taxa; diversity generally increases towards low latitudes and towards environments characterized by high temperature and energy availability. 2. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) assumes that diversity is affected both by amount or supply rate of resources which positively affects total number of individuals, and by the positive effect of temperature on diversification rates. Although these assumptions are reasonable, this theory has several conceptual problems and the empirical patterns support only some of its predictions. 3. Species richness does not seem to be strongly affected by the total number of individuals. 4. Diversity patterns are certainly affected also by processes which are not accounted for by the MTE, most importantly range dynamics associated with the evolution of species climatic tolerances, which is affected by the level
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP505%2F11%2F2387" target="_blank" >GAP505/11/2387: Macroecology beyond species richness: reconciling ecological and evolutionary processes driving spatial variation of biodiversity</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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