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DOI | 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.11.001 |
Regional patterns of ant-species richness in an arid region: The importance of climate and biogeography | |
Segev, Udi | |
通讯作者 | Segev, Udi |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS |
ISSN | 0140-1963 |
出版年 | 2010 |
卷号 | 74期号:6页码:646-652 |
英文摘要 | Since broad-scale patterns of richness are correlated with climatic variables, a central question is whether climate could represent a primary explanation for richness gradients and specifically, how different components of the water-energy dynamic can contribute to regional richness patterns. In the sandy dunes of Israel, where mean annual precipitation rises sharply from 30 to 600 mm within a distance of only 360 km, precipitation and temperature were tested as explanatory variables of the ant-species richness pattern. Moreover, since two biogeographic regions, the Mediterranean and Saharo-Arabian, intersect within the study area, the hypothesis that two distinctive ant species assemblages exist on either side of the biogeographic cross-point was examined. Annual precipitation and ant-species richness showed a significant unimodal pattern, while no correlation was found between temperature and ant-species richness. Cluster and detrended correspondence analyses suggest that the intersection between the two biogeographic regions does not act as a biogeographic barrier. Moreover, the highest ant-species richness was not found in the high-productivity region but in the intersection between the two biogeographic regions, where resource heterogeneity could be high. This suggests that the observed unimodality between ant-species richness and precipitation could be the result of the intersection between these biogeographic regions. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Ants Biogeographic regions Precipitation Sandy soils Species richness Temperature |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Israel |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000276652700004 |
WOS关键词 | SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ; DIVERSITY GRADIENTS ; NORTH-AMERICA ; SCALE ; PRODUCTIVITY ; DESERT ; ENERGY ; BIODIVERSITY ; DETERMINANTS |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Environmental Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源机构 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/164903 |
作者单位 | Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Life Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Segev, Udi. Regional patterns of ant-species richness in an arid region: The importance of climate and biogeography[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,2010,74(6):646-652. |
APA | Segev, Udi.(2010).Regional patterns of ant-species richness in an arid region: The importance of climate and biogeography.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,74(6),646-652. |
MLA | Segev, Udi."Regional patterns of ant-species richness in an arid region: The importance of climate and biogeography".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 74.6(2010):646-652. |
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