Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

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Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/22:00562762 RIV/86652079:_____/22:00562762 RIV/60460709:41320/22:92945 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10454644 RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904769
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
Original language description
The 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 degrees x 0.025 degrees) map of local tree species richness using a global forest inventory database with individual tree information and local biophysical characteristics from similar to 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.
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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
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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