The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: I. Spatial patterns

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-46

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Blackburn, Tim M ^b   Gregory, Richard D ^c   Greenwood, Jeremy J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Birds; Community structure; Geographical range size; Macroecology; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 0002700744     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00004.x     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). Abundance-body size relationships: the area you census tells you more. Oikos, 75, 303-309.
2. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1997). Who is rare? Artefacts and complexities in rarity determination. In The Biology of Rarity, ed. Kunin, W.E. & Gaston, K.J. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 48-60.
3. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Quinn, R.M., Arnold, H. & Gregory, R.D. (1997). Of mice and wrens: the relation between abundance and geographic range size in British mammals and birds. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B., 352, 419-427.
4. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gregory, R.D. (1998). The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: II. Temporal dynamics. Ecology Lett., 1, 47-55.
5. Bock, C.E. & Ricklefs, R.E. (1983). Range size and local abundance of some North American songbirds: a positive correlation. Am. Nat., 122, 295-299.
6. Brown, J.H. (1984). On the relationship between abundance and distribution of species. Am. Nat., 124, 255-279.
7. Brown, J.H. (1995). Macroecology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
8. Brown, J.H. & Maurer, B.A. (1987). Evolution of species assemblages: effects of energetic constraints and species dynamics on the diversification of the American avifauna. Am. Nat., 130, 1-17.
9. Burgman, M.A. (1989). The habitat volumes of scarce and ubiquitous plants: a test of the model of environmental control. Am. Nat., 133, 228-239.
10. Collins, S.L. & Glenn, S.M. (1991). Importance of spatial and temporal dynamics in species regional abundance and distribution. Ecology, 72, 654-664.
11. Fager, E.W. & McGowan, J.A. (1963). Zooplankton species groups in the North Pacific. Science, 140, 453-460.
12. Fuller, R.J. (1982). Bird Habitats in Britain. Calton, U.K.: Poyser.
13. Fuller, R.J., Gregory, R.D., Gibbons, D.W., Marchant, J.H., Wilson, J.D., Baillie, S.R. & Carter, N. (1995). Population declines and range contractions among lowland farmland birds in Britain. Conserv. Biol., 9, 1425-1442.
14. Gaston, K.J. (1994). Rarity. London: Chapman & Hall.
15. Gaston, K.J. (1996). The multiple forms of the interspecific abundance-distribution relationship. Oikos, 76, 211-220.
16. Gaston, K.J. (1997). What is rarity? In The Biology of Rarity, ed. Kunin, W.E. & Gaston, K.J. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 30-47.
17. Gaston, K.J. & Lawton, J.H. (1988). Patterns in the distribution and abundance of insect populations. Nature, 331, 709-712.
18. Gaston, K.J. & Lawton, J.H. (1990). Effects of scale and habitat on the relationship between regional distribution and local abundance. Oikos, 58, 329-335.
19. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Lawton, J.H. (1997a). Interspecific abundance-range size relationships: an appraisal of mechanisms. J. Anim Ecol., 66, 579-601.
20. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1997b). Interspecific abundance-range size relationships: range position and phylogeny. Ecography, 20, 390-399.
21. Gibbons, D.W., Reid, J.B. & Chapman, R.A. (1993). The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-91. London: T. & A.D. Poyser.
22. Gregory, R.D. (1995). Phylogeny and relations among abundance, geographical range and body size of British breeding birds. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, 349, 345.
23. Gregory, R.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (in press). Macroecological patterns in British breeding birds: covariation of species' geographical range sizes at differing spatial scales. Ecography.
24. Grubb, P.J., Kelly, D. & Mitchley, J. (1982). The control, of relative abundance in communities of herbaceous plants. In The Plant Community as a Working Mechanism, ed. New man, E.I. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, pp. 79-97.
25. Hanski, I. (1982). Dynamics of regional distribution: the core and satellite species hypothesis. Oikos, 38, 210-221.
26. Hanski, I. (1991). Single-species metapopulation dynamics: concepts, models and observations. Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 42, 17-38.
27. Hanski, I., Kouki, J. & Halkka, A. (1993). Three explanations of the positive relationship between distribution and abundance of species. In Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, ed. Ricklefs, R.E. & Schluter, D. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 108-116.
28. Harvey, P.H. (1996). Phylogenies for ecologists. J. Anim. Ecol., 65, 255-263.
29. Holt, R.D., Lawton, J.H., Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1997). On the relationship between range size and local abundance: Back to basics. Oikos, 78, 183-190.
30. Järvinen, O. & Sammalisto, L. (1976). Regional trends in the avifauna of Finnish peatland bogs. Annales Zool. Fennici, 13, 31-43.
31. Lacy, R.C. & Bock, C.E. (1986). The correlation between range size and local abundance of some North American birds. Ecology, 67, 258-260.
32. Lawton, J.H. (1993). Range, population abundance and conservation. Trends Ecol. Evol, 8, 409-413.
33. Lawton, J.H. (1995). Population dynamic principles. In Extinction Rates, ed. Lawton, J.H. & May, R.M. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-163.
34. Leitner, W.A. & Rosenzweig, M. (1997). Nested species-area curves and stochastic sampling: a new theory. Oikos, 79, 503-512.
35. Marchant, J.H., Hudson, R., Carter, S.P. & Whittington, P. (1990). Population Trends in British Breeding Birds. Tring, U.K.: British Trust for Ornithology.
36. McArdle, B.H. (1988). The structural relationship: regression in biology. Can. J. Zool., 66, 2329-2339.
37. McArdle, B.H. (1990). When are rare species not there? Oikos, 57, 276-277.
38. McGowan, J.A. & Walker, P.W. (1993). Pelagic diversity patterns. In Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, ed. Ricklefs, R.E. & Schluter, D. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 203-214.
39. Mehlman, D.W. (1994). Rarity in North American passerine birds. Conserv. Biol., 8, 1141-1145.
40. Mitchley, J. & Grubb, P.J. (1986). Control of relative abundance of perennials in chalk grassland in southern England. I. Constancy of rank order and results of pot-and field-experiments on the role of interference. J. Ecol., 74, 1139-1166.
41. O'Connor, R.J. (1981). Comparisons between migrant and non-migrant birds in Britain. In Animal Migration, ed. Aidley, D.J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 167-195.
42. O'Connor, R.J. (1987). Organisation of avian assemblages the influence of intraspecific habitat dynamics. In The Organisation of Communities: Past and Present, ed. Gee, J.H.R. & Giller, P.S. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 163-183.
43. O'Connor, R.J. & Shrubb, M. (1986). Farming and Birds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
44. Sharrock, J.T.R. (1976). The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. Berkhamstead, U.K.: Poyser.
45. Sutherland, W.J. & Baillie, S.R. (1993). Patterns in the distribution, abundance and variation of bird populations. Ibis, 135, 209-210.
46. Watkins, A.J. & Wilson, J.B. (1994). Plant community structure, and its relation to the vertical complexity of communities: dominance/diversity and spatial rank consistency. Oikos, 70, 91-98.
47. Wright, D.H. (1991). Correlations between incidence and abundance are expected by chance. J. Biogeog., 18, 463-466.