Rapoport's Rule Does Not Apply to Marine Teleosts and Cannot Explain Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness

Rohde, Klaus; Heap, Maureen; Heap, David

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“…To examine the relationship between the elevational range size of plant species and elevation, the elevational range size of plant species was quantified by calculating (1) the mean range size of all the species present in an elevational band (Stevens' method) [10] and (2) the range size only of species whose range midpoints are in a particular band (midpoint method) [45]. The relationship between elevational range size of plant species and elevation was evaluated using simple regression analysis.…”

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Elevational patterns and determinants of plant diversity in the Baekdudaegan Mountains, South Korea: Species vs. functional diversity

Lee

Chun

Cho³

2013

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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The elevational gradient present in mountainous areas provides the most powerful natural experimental system available to clarify the ecological and evolutionary responses of living organisms to geophysical influences. In this study, we explored the elevational patterns of plant species and functional diversity and the effects of area, mid-domain effect, climatic variables and net primary productivity on the observed diversity patterns along the ridge of the Baekdudaegan Mountains, South Korea. Rapoport's elevational rule was also evaluated by examining the relationship between elevational range size of plant species and elevation. A total of 802 plant species from 97 families and 342 genera were found in 1100 plots along a 200--1900-m elevational gradient along the ridge. The elevational patterns of plant species diversity along the ridge of the Baekdudaegan depicted distinctly hump-shaped patterns, whereas the functional diversity decreased monotonically with elevation. The mid-domain effect was the most powerful explanatory variable for species diversity patterns. However, climatic variables were better predictors for functional diversity. Moreover, Rapoport's elevational rule was not supported. Our study suggests that different elevational patterns may be observed among different diversity measurements even in the same taxon and that there may be fundamental differences in the mechanisms underlying these diversity patterns.climatic variables, elevational gradient, functional diversity, mid-domain effect, species diversity Citation:Lee C B, Chun J H, Cho H J. Elevational patterns and determinants of plant diversity in the Baekdudaegan Mountains, South Korea: Species vs. functional diversity.

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Elevational patterns and determinants of plant diversity in the Baekdudaegan Mountains, South Korea: Species vs. functional diversity

Lee

Chun

Cho³

2013

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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“…Indeed, it would be unfair to dismiss the accomplishments as being simply descriptive. Despite disagreement about some of the details (e.g., body size distributions: Manly 1996, Siemann and Brown in press; Rapoport's rule: Rohde et al 1993, Rohde and Heap 1996, Gaston et al 1998, there has been increasing consensus. The statistical patterns described by Arrhenius, Willis, Fisher, Williams, Preston, Hutchinson, MacArthur, Wilson, and many others have been supported and new ones have been discovered.…”

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Macroecology: Progress and Prospect

Brown¹

1999

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Brown, J. H. 1999. Macroecology: progress and prospect. -Oikos 87: 3-14.The last decade has seen an explosion of research in macroecology. This is evidenced by the rapid increase in the number of publications which contain the word macroecology in their title, abstract, or key words, or which cite seminal publications. The promise of macroecology is that very general statistical patterns provide clues to the operation of equally general mechanistic processes which govern the structure and dynamics of complex ecological systems. There has been much progress in characterizing macroecological patterns and showing that they hold across different taxonomic and functional groups of organisms, kinds of environments, and geographic regions. There has been much less progress, however, in identifying the underlying mechanisms. The challenge for the future is to build and evaluate mechanistic models which can explain macroecological patterns in terms of established physical and biological principles. J. H. Brown, Dept o f Biology, CTnil;. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, IVM 87131, USA fihbro~c;n@unm.edu). It has been nearly a decade since Brian Maurer and IIn this minireview I will present my own candid and (Brown and Maurer 1989) first used the term "macro-very personal assessment of recent progress and future ecology" in the title of a synthetic paper which summa-prospects in macroecology. I will begin with a staterized some of our collaborative work. It has been five ment of what I think macroecology is and what it might years since the publication of my little book, Macro-become. I will reemphasize the sentiment, expressed in ecology (Brown 1995), which endeavored to present an Brown (1995), that it is a research program: a way of updated and personal perspective on this kind of re-thinking, exploring, and asking questions about a class search. In the meantime. Maurer (1994Maurer ( , 1999 has of complex ecological phenomena. Then, I will attempt published two books of his own on the topic. a brief, constructively critical review some of the recent Although we cannot take credit for having devel-activities. I will spend most of my time, however, trying oped a new approach to ecological research, Maurer to look forward, rather than backward. So in the last and I must assume some responsibility, not only for section, I will endeavor to present my view of the having coined the term macroecology, but more im-present and future promise of the macroecological portantly for playing some role in stimulating a approach. rapidly increasing body of macroecological research. In some ways, the response has been gratifying. If, indeed, as the old English saying goes, "imitation is the What is macroecology? sincerest form of flattery", then growing numbers of macroecological publications are clear evidence of suc-My view of the nature and scope of macroecology has cess. If, on the other hand, the success of a scientific changed little since my 1995 book. To me, macroecolresearch program is to be measured by more than ogy still is a resear...

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“…a species with a range of 50 degrees appears in 10 or 11 bands. Rohde et al (1993) have shown that this method leads to an artificial inflation of latitudinal ranges of high latitude species. The reason is that species diversity at low latitudes is greater, and if only a few tropical species have large latitudinal ranges extending into higher latitudes with their much lower diversity, the average latitudinal range there will be greatly inflated (the few high latitude species extending into the tropics would hardly have any effect).…”

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Simulation of Rapoport's rule for latitudinal species spread

Stauffer

Rohde

2006

Theory in Biosciences

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Abstract:Rapoport's rule claims that latitudinal ranges of plant and animal species are generally smaller at low than at high latitudes. However, doubts as to the generality of the rule have been expressed, because studies providing evidence against the rule are more numerous than those in support of it. In groups for which support has been provided, the trend of increasing latitudinal ranges with latitude is restricted to or at least most distinct at high latitudes, suggesting that the effect may be a local phenomenon, for example the result of glaciations. Here we test the rule using two models, a simple one-dimensional one with a fixed number of animals expanding in a northern or southerly direction only, and the evolutionary/ecological Chowdhury model using birth, ageing, death, mutation, speciation, prey-predator relations and food levels. Simulations with both models gave results contradicting Rapoport's rule. In the first, latitudinal ranges were roughly independent of latitude, in the second, latitudinal ranges were greatest at low latitudes, as also shown empirically for some well studied groups of animals.

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Rapoport's Rule Does Not Apply to Marine Teleosts and Cannot Explain Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness

Cited by 196 publications

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Elevational patterns and determinants of plant diversity in the Baekdudaegan Mountains, South Korea: Species vs. functional diversity

Elevational patterns and determinants of plant diversity in the Baekdudaegan Mountains, South Korea: Species vs. functional diversity

Macroecology: Progress and Prospect

Simulation of Rapoport's rule for latitudinal species spread

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