Midpoint attractor models resolve the mid-elevation peak in Himalayan plant species richness

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43903058" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903058 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/21:00548909 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10441371 RIV/60460709:41320/21:89420 RIV/60460709:41330/21:89420
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.05901" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.05901</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05901" target="_blank" >10.1111/ecog.05901</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Midpoint attractor models resolve the mid-elevation peak in Himalayan plant species richness
Original language description
The midpoint attractor (MPA) models of species richness integrate a unimodal environmental favourability gradient and neutral effects forced by geometric constraints and thus extend the ecologically neutral mid-domain model. However, both alternative MPA algorithms assume that underlying environmental favourability peaks within the modelling domain. Here, we used elevational distribution data for 1054 plant species occurring in northwest Himalaya to explore species richness gradients and MPA performance in species groups defined by biogeography, taxonomy and life-form. MPA models achieved an excellent fit, but the two MPA algorithms produced contrasting estimates of MPA location, especially for species groups with richness originating in lowlands. Therefore, we propose a modification of the MPA model accounting for the environmental favourability peak outside the study domain to reflect these situations. Biogeographic origin was more decisive for MPA location than taxonomic or life-form classification, indicating relatively low climatic niche conservatism in plants.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-26883S" target="_blank" >GA21-26883S: How global warming affects plant diversity and productivity in Himalayas? Combining in-situ and remote sensing approaches</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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