The relative influence of climate, environmental heterogeneity, and human population on the distribution of vertebrate species richness in south-eastern Spain

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-58

  Moreno Rueda, Gregorio ^a   Pizarro, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate; Heterogeneity; Human disturbance; Spatial structure; Species richness; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250195717     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Andrews P., and O'Brien E. Climate, vegetation, and predictable gradients in mammal species richness in southern Africa. J. Zool. 251 (2000) 205-231
2. Araújo M.B. The coincidence of people and biodiversity in Europe. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 12 (2003) 5-12
3. Atauri J.A., and de Lucio J.V. The role of landscape structure in species richness distribution of birds, amphibians, reptiles and lepidopterans in Mediterranean landscapes. Landscape Ecol. 16 (2001) 147-159
4. Balmford A., Moore J.L., Brooks T., Burguess N.D., Hansen L.A., Williams P., and Rahbek C. Conservation conflicts across Africa. Science 291 (2001) 2616-2619
5. Boone R.B., and Krohn W.B. Partitioning sources of variation in vertebrate species richness. J. Biogeogr. 27 (2000) 457-470
6. Borcard D., Legendre P., and Drapeau P. Partialling out the spatial component of ecological variation. Ecology 73 (1992) 1045-1055
7. Brown J.H. Macroecology (1995), University of Chicago Press, Chicago
8. Bustamante J., and Seoane J. Predicting the distribution of four species of raptors (Aves: Accipitridae) in southern Spain: statistical models work better than existing maps. J. Biogeogr. 31 (2004) 295-306
9. Carrascal L.M., and Lobo J.M. Respuestas a viejas preguntas con nuevos datos: estudio de los patrones de distribución de la avifauna española y consecuencias para su conservación. In: Martí R., and del Moral J.C. (Eds). Atlas de las aves reproductoras de España (2003), Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza-SEO, Madrid 651-668
10. Chown S.L., van Rensburg B.J., Gaston K.J., Rodrigues A.S.L., and van Jaarsveld A.S. Energy, species richness, and human population size: conservation implications at a national scale. Ecol. Appl. 13 (2003) 1233-1241
11. Conrad O. SAGA 2.0.0b (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) [computer program]. GNU, General Public License (GPL) (2005), Geographisches Institut, Göttingen
12. Cox C.B., and Moore P.D. Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach. seventh ed. (2005), Blackwell Publishing, Malden
13. Currie D.J., Mittelbach G.G., Cornell H.V., Field R., Guégan J.-F., Hawkins B.A., Kaufman D.M., Kerr J.T., Oberdoff T., O'Brien E., and Turner J.R.G. Predictions and tests of climate-based hypotheses of broad-scale variation in taxonomic richness. Ecol. Lett. 7 (2004) 1121-1134
14. Ding T.-S., Yuan H.-W., Geng S., and Koh C.-N. Macro-scale bird species richness patterns of the East Asian mainland and islands: energy, area and isolation. J. Biogeogr. 33 (2006) 683-693
15. Endler J.A. Multiple-trait coevolution and environmental gradients in guppies. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10 (1995) 22-29
16. Evans K.L., and Gaston K.J. People, energy and avian species richness. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 14 (2005) 187-196
17. Evans K.L., Warren P.H., and Gaston K.J. Species-energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanisms. Biol. Rev. 80 (2005) 1-25
18. Fernández-Cardenete J.R., Luzón-Ortega J.M., Pérez-Contreras J., and Tierno-de-Figueroa J.M. Revisión de la distribución y conservación de los anfibios y reptiles en la provincia de Granada (España). Zool. Baetica. 11 (2000) 77-104
19. Fraser R.H. Vertebrate species richness at the mesoscale: relative roles of energy and heterogeneity. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 7 (1998) 215-220
20. Gaston K.J. Global patterns in biodiversity. Nature 405 (2000) 220-227
21. Gaston K.J., and Blackburn T.M. Patterns and Process in Macroecology (2000), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford
22. Gaston K.J., and Evans K.L. Birds and people in Europe. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 271 (2004) 1649-1655
23. Guisan A., and Hofer U. Predicting reptile distributions at the mesoscale: relation to climate and topography. J. Biogeogr. 30 (2003) 1233-1243
24. Hanski I. Metapopulation dynamics. Nature 396 (1998) 41-49
25. Hawkins B.A., Field R., Cornell H.V., Currie D.J., Guégan J.-F., Kaufman D.M., Kerr J.T., Mittelbach G.G., Oberdoff T., O'Brien E.M., Porter E.E., and Turner J.R.G. Energy, water, and broad-scale geographic patterns of species richness. Ecology 84 (2003) 3105-3117
26. Hurlbert A.H., and Haskell J.P. The effect of energy and seasonality on avian species richness and community composition. Am. Nat. 161 (2003) 83-97
27. Jetz W., and Rahbek C. Geographic range size and determinants of avian species richness. Science 297 (2002) 1548-1551
28. Junta de Andalucía. Red Medioambiental de Andalucía (Rediam) (2001), Junta de Andalucía, Sevilla
29. Kerr J.T., and Packer L. Habitat heterogeneity as a determinant of mammal species richness in high-energy regions. Nature 385 (1997) 252-254
30. Lee P.-F., Ding T.-S., Hsu F.-H., and Geng S. Breeding bird species richness in Taiwan: distribution on gradients of elevation, primary productivity and urbanization. J. Biogeogr. 31 (2004) 307-314
31. Legendre P. Spatial autocorelation: trouble or new paradigm?. Ecology 74 (1993) 1659-1673
32. Lennon J.J., Greenwood J.J.D., and Turner J.R.G. Bird diversity and environmental gradients in Britain: a test of the species-energy hypothesis. J. Anim. Ecol. 69 (2000) 581-598
33. In: Martí R., and del Moral J.C. (Eds). Atlas de las aves reproductoras de España (2003), Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza-SEO, Madrid
34. McKinney M.L. Extinction vulnerability and selectivity: combining ecological and paleontological view. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28 (1997) 495-516
35. McKinney M.L., and Lockwood J.L. Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction. Trends Ecol. Evol. 14 (1999) 450-453
36. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. Base de datos de los vertebrados de España (2003), Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Madrid
37. Owen J.G. On productivity as a predictor of rodent and carnivore diversity. Ecology 69 (1988) 1165-1169
38. In: Palomo L.J., and Gisbert J. (Eds). Atlas de los mamíferos terrestres de España (2002), Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza-SECEM-SECEMU, Madrid
39. Pautasso M. Scale dependence of the correlation between human population presence and vertebrate and plant species richness. Ecol. Lett. 10 (2007) 16-24
40. Pleguezuelos J.M. Introducción al estado de conservación de los reptiles de Andalucía. In: Franco Ruiz A., and Rodríguez de los SantosM (Eds). Libro rojo de los vertebrados amenazados de Andalucía. Consejería de Medio Ambiente (2001), Junta de Andalucía, Seville 49-58
41. In: Pleguezuelos J.M., Márquez R., and Lizana M. (Eds). Atlas y libro rojo de los anfibios y reptiles de España (2002), Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza-AHE, Madrid
42. Pianka E.R. Evolutionary Ecology. sixth ed. (2000), Benjamin/Cumming, San Francisco
43. Pulliam H.R. On the relationship between niche and distribution. Ecol. Lett. 3 (2000) 349-361
44. Rahbek C. The role of spacial scale and the perception of large-scale species-richness patterns. Ecol. Lett. 8 (2005) 224-239
45. Rahbek C., and Graves G.R. Multiple assessment of patterns of avian species richness. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98 (2001) 4534-4539
46. Real R., Barbosa A.M., Porras D., Kin M.S., Márquez A.L., Guerrero J.C., Palomo L.J., Justo E.R., and Vargas J.M. Relative importance of environment, human activity and spatial situation in determining the distribution of terrestrial mammal diversity in Argentina. J. Biogeogr. 30 (2003) 939-947
47. Rivas-Martínez S. Les étages bioclimatiques de la vegetation de la Peninsule Iberique. Ann. Jard. Bot. Madrid 37 (1981) 251-268
48. Rodríguez M.A., Belmontes J.A., and Hawkins B.A. Energy, water and large-scale patterns of reptile and amphibian species richness in Europe. Acta Oecol. 28 (2005) 65-70
49. Ruggiero A., and Kitzberger T. Environmental correlates of mammal species richness in South America: effects of spatial structure, taxonomy and geographic range. Ecography 27 (2004) 401-416
50. Sokal R.R., and Rohlf F.J. Biometry. third ed. (1995), Freeman, New York
51. Terborgh J. Preservation of natural diversity: the problem of extinction prone species. BioScience 24 (1974) 715-722
52. Tews J., Brose U., Grimm V., Tielbörger K., Wichmann M.C., Shwager M., and Jeltsch F. Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogenity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures. J. Biogeogr. 31 (2004) 79-92
53. Tognelli M.F., and Kelt D.A. Analysis of determinants of mammalian species richness in South America using spatial autoregressive models. Ecography 27 (2004) 427-436
54. Turner J.R.G., Lennon J.J., and Lawrenson J.A. British bird species distributions and the energy theory. Nature 335 (1988) 539-541
55. van Rensburg B.J., Chown S.L., and Gaston K.J. Species richness, environmental correlates, and spatial scale: a test using south African birds. Am. Nat. 159 (2002) 566-577
56. ver Hoef J.M., and Cressie N. Spatial statistics: analysis of field experiments. In: Scheiner S.M., and Gurevitch J. (Eds). Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments (2001), Oxford University Press, New York 289-307
57. Waide R.B., Willig M.R., Steiner C.F., Mittelbach G., Gough L., Dobson S.I., Juday G.P., and Parmenter R. The relationship between productivity and species richness. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 30 (1999) 257-300
58. Watkinson A.R., Gill J.A., and Freckleton R.P. Macroecology and microecology: linking large-scale patterns of abundance to population processes. In: Blackburn T.M., and Gaston K.J. (Eds). Macroecology: Concepts and Consequences (2003), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 256-273
59. Whittaker R.J., Nogués-Bravo D., and Araújo M.B. Geographical gradients of species richness: a test of the water-energy conjecture of Hawkins, et al. (2003) using European data for five taxa. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 16 (2007) 76-89
60. Wiens J.J., and Donoghue M.J. Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness. Trends Ecol. Evol. 19 (2004) 639-644
61. Willig M.R., Kaufman D.M., and Stevens R.D. Latitudinal gradients of biodiversity: patterns, process, scale, and synthesis. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 34 (2003) 273-310
62. Willis K.J., and Whittaker R.J. Species diversity-scale matters. Science 295 (2002) 1245-1248
63. Wright D.H. Species-energy theory: an extension of species-area theory. Oikos 41 (1983) 496-506