Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

• Publication date

  2015-12-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV-ECOLSYS-112414-054102
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Phylogenetic Patterns of Endemism and Diversity

  2017cited by this paper
• Species richness at continental scales is dominated by ecological limits.

  2015cited by this paper
• A twofold role for global energy gradients in marine biodiversity trends

  2015influential reference
• The first Late Eocene continental faunal assemblage from tropical North America

  2015cited by this paper
• Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

  2015cited by this paper
• Generic Indicators of Ecological Resilience: Inferring the Chance of a Critical Transition

  2015cited by this paper
• Species diversity is dynamic and unbounded at local and continental scales.

  2015cited by this paper
• Assessing the latitudinal gradient in herbivory

  2015cited by this paper
• Relative roles of ecological and energetic constraints, diversification rates and region history on global species richness gradients.

  2015cited by this paper
• Minimal effects of latitude on present-day speciation rates in New World birds

  2015cited by this paper
• The shifting landscape of genes since the Pliocene: terrestrial phylogeography in the Greater Cape Floristic Region

  2014cited by this paper
• The latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis

  2014cited by this paper
• Temperate extinction in squamate reptiles and the roots of latitudinal diversity gradients

  2014influential reference
• Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants

  2014cited by this paper
• The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time.

  2014cited by this paper
• Faster Speciation and Reduced Extinction in the Tropics Contribute to the Mammalian Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

  2014influential reference
• Model inadequacy and mistaken inferences of trait-dependent speciation.

  2014influential reference
• Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees

  2014cited by this paper
• Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

  2014cited by this paper
• On the processes generating latitudinal richness gradients: identifying diagnostic patterns and predictions

  2014cited by this paper
• LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS OF BIODIVERSITY

  2013cited by this paper
• Extending ecological niche models to the past 120 000 years corroborates the lack of strong phylogeographic structure in the Crested Drongo (Dicrurus forficatus forficatus) on Madagascar

  2013cited by this paper
• An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

  2013cited by this paper
• Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

  2013cited by this paper
• Strong coupling of plant and fungal community structure across western Amazonian rainforests

  2013cited by this paper
• Why are there so many species in the tropics?

  2013influential reference
• Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

  2013influential reference
• Is regional species diversity bounded or unbounded?

  2013cited by this paper
• Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient

  2013cited by this paper
• Stronger biotic resistance in tropics relative to temperate zone: effects of predation on marine invasion dynamics.

  2013cited by this paper
• Insect herbivores, chemical innovation, and the evolution of habit specialization in Amazonian trees.

  2013cited by this paper
• Diversity-Dependence, Ecological Speciation, and the Role of Competition in Macroevolution

  2013cited by this paper
• Global Gradients in Vertebrate Diversity Predicted by Historical Area-Productivity Dynamics and Contemporary Environment

  2012cited by this paper
• Crossing the threshold: gene flow, dominance and the critical level of standing genetic variation required for adaptation to novel environments

  2012cited by this paper
• Phylogeny, ecology, and the origins of climate-richness relationships

  2012cited by this paper
• Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions.

  2012cited by this paper
• Goldilocks Meets Santa Rosalia: An Ephemeral Speciation Model Explains Patterns of Diversification Across Time Scales

  2012cited by this paper
• The global diversity of birds in space and time

  2012influential reference
• Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity

  2012cited by this paper
• Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa

  2012cited by this paper
• Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

  2012cited by this paper
• The Role of Mountain Ranges in the Diversification of Birds

  2012cited by this paper
• Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape

  2012cited by this paper
• Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences.

  2012cited by this paper
• Herbivore pressure increases toward the equator

  2012cited by this paper
• Response to Comments on “Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients”

  2012cited by this paper
• What causes latitudinal gradients in species diversity? Evolutionary processes and ecological constraints on swallowtail biodiversity.

  2012cited by this paper
• Global environmental predictors of benthic marine biogeographic structure

  2012cited by this paper
• The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

  2011cited by this paper
• The Causes Of Species Richness Patterns Across Space, Time, And Clades And The Role Of “Ecological Limits”

  2011cited by this paper
• Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

  2011cited by this paper
• Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics

  2011cited by this paper
• How diversification rates and diversity limits combine to create large-scale species–area relationships

  2011influential reference
• Multiregional comparison of the ecological and phylogenetic structure of butterfly species richness gradients

  2010influential reference
• Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

  2010cited by this paper
• Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

  2010influential reference
• Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

  2010cited by this paper
• Speciation Has a Spatial Scale That Depends on Levels of Gene Flow

  2010cited by this paper
• Dynamic refugia and species persistence: tracking spatial shifts in habitat through time

  2010cited by this paper
• Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

  2010cited by this paper
• Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology.

  2010cited by this paper
• A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions

  2010cited by this paper
• Faster evolution of highly conserved DNA in tropical plants

  2010cited by this paper
• Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects

  2010cited by this paper
• Inaugural Article: Evolutionary diversification, coevolution between populations and their antagonists, and the filling of niche space

  2010cited by this paper
• EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT AND ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

  2010cited by this paper
• Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

  2009cited by this paper
• Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions

  2009cited by this paper
• Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

  2009cited by this paper
• Deep-Sea Biodiversity

  2009cited by this paper
• Speciation and Patterns of Diversity: Biotic interactions and speciation in the tropics

  2009cited by this paper
• Latitude, elevation and the tempo of molecular evolution in mammals

  2009cited by this paper
• The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

  2009cited by this paper
• TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE

  2008cited by this paper
• Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

  2008cited by this paper
• A global evaluation of metabolic theory as an explanation for terrestrial species richness gradients.

  2007cited by this paper
• Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas

  2007cited by this paper
• Global variation in diversification rates of flowering plants: energy vs. climate change.

  2007cited by this paper
• Latitudinal diversity gradients for brachiopod genera during late Palaeozoic time: links between climate, biogeography and evolutionary rates

  2007cited by this paper
• Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography.

  2007influential reference
• Recasting the species–energy hypothesis: the different roles of kinetic and potential energy in regulating biodiversity

  2007cited by this paper
• A latitudinal gradient in large-scale beta diversity for vascular plants in North America.

  2007cited by this paper
• Evidence for a Time‐Integrated Species‐Area Effect on the Latitudinal Gradient in Tree Diversity

  2006influential reference
• Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation.

  2006cited by this paper
• Habitat history improves prediction of biodiversity in rainforest fauna.

  2006cited by this paper
• Diversity begets diversity: host expansions and the diversification of plant-feeding insects

  2006cited by this paper
• Global variation in the diversification rate of passerine birds.

  2006cited by this paper
• Out of the Tropics: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

  2006influential reference
• Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited.

  2006cited by this paper
• TESTING FOR LATITUDINAL BIAS IN DIVERSIFICATION RATES: AN EXAMPLE USING NEW WORLD BIRDS

  2005cited by this paper
• Neutral theory in community ecology and the hypothesis of functional equivalence

  2005influential reference
• Species‐energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanisms

  2005cited by this paper
• The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock.

  2005cited by this paper
• A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity

  2004cited by this paper
• Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plants

  2004cited by this paper
• CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF DARWIN'S FINCHES CAUSED BY INTROGRESSIVE HYBRIDIZATION AND SELECTION

  2004cited by this paper
• The Latitudinal Gradient in Niche Breadth: Concepts and Evidence

  2004cited by this paper
• Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness.

  2004cited by this paper
• Herbivores Promote Habitat Specialization by Trees in Amazonian Forests

  2004cited by this paper
• Global patterns in endemism explained by past climatic change

  2003influential reference

• Phylotranscriptomics and genome-size evidence clarify the Taiwanese Cirsium japonicum complex and delimit C. brevicaule and allied East Asian thistles.

  2026cites this paper
• Edaphic and climatic drivers of herbaceous plant diversity in geologically distinct mountain floras of Griqualand West, South Africa

  2026cites this paper
• Light Paths and Dark Valleys: Topographic Complexity and Mammal Occupancy in a Semi‐Arid Mountain Landscape

  2026cites this paper
• Construction of the national inventory of Chilean flora and fauna (Who is who in) the construction of the national inventory of vascular plants and vertebrates of Chile: historical patterns, productivity, and national contribution

  2026cites this paper
• Spatial Portfolios in Coral Metapopulations Are Shaped by Spatiotemporal Asynchrony in Environmental Conditions.

  2026cites this paper
• The potential role of life cycle bottlenecks in shaping the marine latitudinal diversity gradient.

  2026cites this paper
• Historical Temperature Stability and Environmental Drivers Shape Patterns of Phylogenetic Diversity in Cactaceae

  2026cites this paper
• Genetic diversity hotspots of trematodes (Platyhelminthes) in Mexico and their overlap with protected natural areas

  2025cites this paper
• Consistent energy-diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates.

  2025cites this paper
• Ecological and Evolutionary Factors Shape the Extra‐Tropical Latitudinal Species Diversity Peak in Procellariiform Seabirds

  2025cites this paper
• Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon

  2025cites this paper
• Perceptual maps reveal rampant convergence in butterfly wing patterns across the Neotropics

  2025cites this paper
• Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space.

  2025cites this paper
• Habitat structure shapes ant diversity in Amazonian white-sand ecosystems

  2025cites this paper
• Global intraspecific diversity of marine forests of brown macroalgae predicted by past climate conditions

  2025cites this paper
• In-situ diversification and regional attributes shape asymmetric diversity of Miliusa (Annonaceae) in tropical Asia

  2025cites this paper
• Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness

  2025cites this paper
• Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools

  2025cites this paper
• Macroecological patterns of planktonic unicellular eukaryotes richness in the Southeast Pacific Ocean

  2025cites this paper
• Speciation Rates of Freshwater Fish Across the Americas Vary With Environmental Heterogeneity and Dispersal Ability

  2025cites this paper
• From desert margins to global insights: floristic diversity and conservation strategies in the arid regions of Tabuk and Khulais, Saudi Arabia – a bibliometric and ecological synthesis

  2025cites this paper
• Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern toads.

  2025cites this paper
• Environmental fluctuations trigger faster evolution and turnover

  2025cites this paper
• Deep time evolution of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Insights from mechanistic models

  2025cites this paper
• General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally.

  2025cites this paper
• Genomic evidence of divergence-with-gene-flow in the pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis

  2025cites this paper
• Patrones de riqueza de especies y conservadurismo filogenético del nicho ecológico en la Zona de Transición Mexicana: evidencia y herramientas para su estudio

  2025cites this paper
• Review of the Mackerel Genus Rastrelliger (Teleostei: Scombridae) with Redescription of R. chrysozonus (Rüppell, 1836) and R. kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816)

  2025cites this paper
• Fruit Evolution Is Key to Ecological Niches and Distribution Ranges Divergence in the Tribe Ligustrinae (Oleaceae)

  2025cites this paper
• The influence of environmental stability and upwelling variation on copepod diversity in the Humboldt Current System off Chile

  2025cites this paper
• ‘Out of the Tropics’ Sheds Light on Latitudinal Gradients in Clade Ages of Climbers, China

  2025cites this paper
• Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity

  2025cites this paper
• Historical biogeography and climatic niche dynamics in spiny lizards of the genus Sceloporus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)

  2025cites this paper
• Integrative taxonomy reveals Parakaliella harimensis (Pilsbry, 1901) as a distinct East Asian Euconulus species with deep genetic structure.

  2025cites this paper
• The inverse latitudinal diversity gradient and drivers in keratinophagous trogid beetles (Coleoptera: Trogidae).

  2025cites this paper
• The Origins of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Revisiting the Tropical Conservatism Hypothesis

  2025cites this paper
• Effect of elevation, habitat, and season in butterfly (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) assemblages in a tropical mountain

  2025cites this paper
• Two Hypotheses About Climate Change and Species Distributions

  2025cites this paper
• Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic

  2025cites this paper
• Weak and inverse latitudinal diversity gradients in the globally dominant flying insect clades

  2025cites this paper
• Blind spots in traditional approaches to conservation prioritization in a climate change context

  2025cites this paper
• The latitudinal variation in amphibian speciation rates revisited

  2025influential citation
• Large‐Scale Variation in Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) Relationships in Aquatic Metacommunities on Terrestrial Islands

  2025cites this paper
• Molecular diversity of dissolved organic matter reflects macroecological patterns in river networks

  2025cites this paper
• Environmental factors driving Macrobrachium species richness on a global scale

  2025cites this paper
• Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them

  2025cites this paper
• Effect of latitudinal gradient on plant mite communities: disentangling the role of environmental and spatial processes on predators and phytophagous mites

  2025cites this paper
• What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’

  2025cites this paper
• Exploring local phenological and phenotypic variation of mosses (Bryophyta) in two common Amazonian habitats

  2025cites this paper
• Mitogenomic insights into the population structure and demographic history of zig-zag eels (Mastacembelus armatus) in southern China

  2025cites this paper
• Precipitation regime drives key alterations in subtropical stream fish community assembly and functional trait distribution across a major rainfall gradient

  2025cites this paper
• Regional γ Diversity of Diatoms in Mediterranean and Alpine Temporary Ponds

  2025cites this paper
• Taxonomic, geographic, and phylogenetic patterns in the conservation status of the squamate reptiles (Reptilia: Squamata) of Colombia

  2025cites this paper
• Global evidence of non-pyramidal and uniform ratios of animal diversity across terrestrial trophic levels

  2025cites this paper
• Habitat attributes mediate top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of community development in temperate and tropical algae

  2025cites this paper
• A global biogeographic regionalization for butterflies

  2025cites this paper
• Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland

  2025cites this paper
• Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands

  2025cites this paper
• Eco-evolutionary evidence for the global diversity pattern of Cycas (Cycadaceae).

  2024cites this paper
• Adaptive shifts in Phanaeini dung beetles of the Mexican plateau cenocron in the Mexican transition zone

  2024cites this paper
• Global patterns and determinants of multiple facets of plant diversity

  2024cites this paper
• Parasitoid species diversity has no effect on protective symbiont diversity in experimental host‐parasitoid populations

  2024cites this paper
• The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test

  2024cites this paper
• Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands

  2024cites this paper
• What “unexplored” means: Mapping undersampled regions in natural history collections

  2024cites this paper
• Comparative analysis of jujube and sour jujube gave insight into their difference in genetic diversity and suitable habitat

  2024cites this paper
• The evolution of paleo- and neo-endemic species of Cactaceae in the isolated Valley of Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, Mexico

  2024cites this paper
• Abiotic correlates with diversity and distinctiveness in Sunshine Coast heathlands: Moisture, volcanic landscapes and patterned mounds

  2024cites this paper
• Threats of dams to the persistence of the world's freshwater fishes

  2024cites this paper
• Cross-taxon correlation and effectiveness of indicator taxa in nature reserves of China

  2024cites this paper
• Anti-predator defences are linked with high levels of genetic differentiation in frogs

  2024cites this paper
• Body size and trophic structure explain global asymmetric response of tetrapod diversity to climate effects

  2024cites this paper
• Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity

  2024cites this paper
• Altitudinal variation in soil nematode communities in an alpine mountain region of the eastern Tibetan plateau

  2024cites this paper
• Niche conservatism and convergence in birds of three cenocrons in the Mexican Transition Zone

  2024cites this paper
• Granite outcrops as possible havens for biodiversity in arid land

  2024cites this paper
• Cerrado bat community assembly is determined by both present‐day and historical factors

  2024cites this paper
• Macro‐evolutionary dynamics dominated by dispersal promote the formation of regional biodiversity hotspot‐insights from hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in South China

  2024cites this paper
• The Interaction Between the Linnean and Darwinian Shortfalls Affects Our Understanding of the Evolutionary Dynamics Driving Diversity Patterns of New World Coralsnakes

  2024cites this paper
• The Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Trees on the Diversity of Forest Communities Worldwide Are Greater than Those of Ectotrophic Mycorrhiza Trees

  2024cites this paper
• Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems

  2024cites this paper
• Seasonality of primary production explains the richness of pioneering benthic communities

  2024influential citation
• Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates

  2024cites this paper
• Differences in alternative splicing events in the adaptive strategies of two Daphnia galeata genotypes induced by fish kairomones

  2024cites this paper
• The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: a general framework for scaling species richness and community abundance along environmental gradients

  2024cites this paper
• Chloroplast DNA phylogeography reveals genetic divergence of bermudagrass along latitudinal and longitudinal gradients in China

  2024cites this paper
• Species Richness and Similarity of New Zealand Mayfly Communities (Ephemeroptera) Decline with Increasing Latitude and Altitude

  2024cites this paper
• Effects of the interaction between Linnean and Darwinian shortfalls on diversification gradients

  2024influential citation
• Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous

  2024cites this paper
• Landform and lithospheric development contribute to the assembly of mountain floras in China

  2024cites this paper
• Body shape divergence of paradise thread fish (Polynemus paradiseus) collected from different coastal habitats of southern Bangladesh: A multivariate approach for population discrimination

  2024cites this paper
• Morphological and life‐history trait plasticity of two Daphnia species induced by fish kairomones

  2024cites this paper
• A global latitudinal gradient in the proportion of terrestrial vertebrate forest species

  2024cites this paper
• Low genetic diversity of the Indonesian Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) (Reptilia: Gekkonidae): Introduce or Native?

  2024cites this paper
• Biogeographic variation in environmental and biotic resistance modifies predicted risk of marine invasions by ships

  2024cites this paper
• Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude

  2024cites this paper
• Assembly structures of coastal woody species of eastern South America: Patterns and drivers

  2024cites this paper
• A Study of the Diversity Patterns of Desert Vegetation Communities in an Arid Zone of China

  2024cites this paper
• Uncovering Evolutionary Adaptations in Common Warthogs through Genomic Analyses

  2024cites this paper
• Environmental drivers of species richness in shallow-water gorgonians (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean

  2024influential citation