Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Francesco Maria Sabatini; Borja Jiménez-Alfaro; Ute Jandt; Milan Chytrý; Richard Field; Michael Kessler; Jonathan Lenoir; Franziska Schrodt; Susan Wiser; Mohammed Arfin Khan; Fabio Attorre; Luis Cayuela; Michele de Sanctis; Jürgen Dengler; Sylvia Haider; Mohamed Hatim; Adrian Indreica; Florian Jansen; Aníbal Pauchard; Robert Peet; Petr Petřík; Valério Pillar; Brody Sandel; Marco Schmidt; Zhiyao Tang; Peter van Bodegom; Kiril Vassilev; Cyrille Violle; Esteban Alvarez-Davila; Priya Davidar; Jiri Dolezal; Bruno Hérault; Antonio Galán-De-Mera; Jorge Jiménez; Stephan Kambach; Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas; Holger Kreft; Felipe Lezama; Reynaldo Linares-Palomino; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Justin N’dja; Oliver Phillips; Gonzalo Rivas-Torres; Petr Sklenář; Karina Speziale; Ben Strohbach; Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez; Hua-Feng Wang; Karsten Wesche; Helge Bruelheide

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Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

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Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Francesco Maria Sabatini, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Ute Jandt, Milan Chytrý, Richard Field, Michael Kessler, Jonathan Lenoir, Franziska Schrodt, Susan Wiser, Mohammed Arfin Khan, …

Nature Communications, Vol.13(1)

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z

PMID: 36050293

Abstract

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (local species richness) for vascular plants at three different spatial grains, for forests and non-forests. We show that alpha diversity is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), but regional ‘scaling anomalies’ (deviations from the positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly in Eurasian temperate forests with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness and many African tropical forests with disproportionally higher coarse-grained richness. The influence of different climatic, topographic and biogeographical variables on alpha diversity also varies across grains. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.

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Title: Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity
Creators - without role: Francesco Maria Sabatini - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ute Jandt - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Milan Chytrý - Masaryk University
Richard Field - University of Nottingham
Michael Kessler - University of Zurich
Jonathan Lenoir - Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés
Franziska Schrodt - University of Nottingham
Susan Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Mohammed Arfin Khan - Forestry & Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Fabio Attorre - Sapienza University of Rome
Luis Cayuela - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Michele de Sanctis - Sapienza University of Rome
Jürgen Dengler - ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Sylvia Haider - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Mohamed Hatim - Wageningen University & Research
Adrian Indreica - Transylvania University of Brașov
Florian Jansen - University of Rostock
Aníbal Pauchard - University of Concepción
Robert Peet - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Petr Petřík - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Valério Pillar - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Brody Sandel - Santa Clara University
Marco Schmidt
Zhiyao Tang - Peking University
Peter van Bodegom - Leiden University
Kiril Vassilev - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Cyrille Violle - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Esteban Alvarez-Davila - Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Priya Davidar
Jiri Dolezal - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Bruno Hérault - Société de Développement des Forêts
Antonio Galán-De-Mera
Jorge Jiménez
Stephan Kambach - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas - University of Copenhagen
Holger Kreft - University of Göttingen
Felipe Lezama - Universidad de la República
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Justin N’dja - Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Petr Sklenář - Charles University
Karina Speziale - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Ben Strohbach - Namibia University of Science and Technology
Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez
Hua-Feng Wang
Karsten Wesche - Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Helge Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Publication Details: Nature Communications, Vol.13(1)
Identifiers: 9935233409311
Academic Unit: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-03779276