Francesco Maria Sabatini
Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity
Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Jandt, Ute; Chytrý, Milan; Field, Richard; Kessler, Michael; Lenoir, Jonathan; Schrodt, Franziska; Wiser, Susan K.; Arfin Khan, Mohammed A.S.; Attorre, Fabio; Cayuela, Luis; De Sanctis, Michele; Dengler, Jürgen; Haider, Sylvia; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Indreica, Adrian; Jansen, Florian; Pauchard, Aníbal; Peet, Robert K.; Petřík, Petr; Pillar, Valério D.; Sandel, Brody; Schmidt, Marco; Tang, Zhiyao; van Bodegom, Peter; Vassilev, Kiril; Violle, Cyrille; Alvarez-Davila, Esteban; Davidar, Priya; Dolezal, Jiri; Hérault, Bruno; Galán-de-Mera, Antonio; Jiménez, Jorge; Kambach, Stephan; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Kreft, Holger; Lezama, Felipe; Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel; N’Dja, Justin K.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo; Sklenář, Petr; Speziale, Karina; Strohbach, Ben J.; Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo; Wang, Hua Feng; Wesche, Karsten; Bruelheide, Helge
Authors
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Ute Jandt
Milan Chytrý
Dr RICHARD FIELD RICHARD.FIELD@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Biodiversity Science
Michael Kessler
Jonathan Lenoir
Dr FRANZISKA SCHRODT FRANZISKA.SCHRODT1@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Susan K. Wiser
Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan
Fabio Attorre
Luis Cayuela
Michele De Sanctis
Jürgen Dengler
Sylvia Haider
Mohamed Z. Hatim
Adrian Indreica
Florian Jansen
Aníbal Pauchard
Robert K. Peet
Petr Petřík
Valério D. 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 K. N’Dja
Oliver L. Phillips
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres
Petr Sklenář
Karina Speziale
Ben J. Strohbach
Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez
Hua Feng Wang
Karsten Wesche
Helge Bruelheide
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.
Citation
Sabatini, F. M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Jandt, U., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Kessler, M., …Bruelheide, H. (2022). Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 4683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 13, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 1, 2022 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Sep 2, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 5, 2022 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Electronic ISSN | 2041-1723 |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 4683 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z |
Keywords | General Physics and Astronomy; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Chemistry; Multidisciplinary |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/10637221 |
Publisher URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32063-z |
Additional Information | Received: 14 April 2021; Accepted: 13 July 2022; First Online: 1 September 2022; : The authors declare no competing interests. |
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