Authors
Jürgen Dengler, Thomas J Matthews, Manuel J Steinbauer, Sebastian Wolfrum, Steffen Boch, Alessandro Chiarucci, Timo Conradi, Iwona Dembicz, Corrado Marcenò, Itziar García‐Mijangos, Arkadiusz Nowak, David Storch, Werner Ulrich, Juan Antonio Campos, Laura Cancellieri, Marta Carboni, Giampiero Ciaschetti, Pieter De Frenne, Jiri Dolezal, Christian Dolnik, Franz Essl, Edy Fantinato, Goffredo Filibeck, John‐Arvid Grytnes, Riccardo Guarino, Behlül Güler, Monika Janišová, Ewelina Klichowska, Łukasz Kozub, Anna Kuzemko, Michael Manthey, Anne Mimet, Alireza Naqinezhad, Christian Pedersen, Robert K Peet, Vincent Pellissier, Remigiusz Pielech, Giovanna Potenza, Leonardo Rosati, Massimo Terzi, Orsolya Valkó, Denys Vynokurov, Hannah White, Manuela Winkler, Idoia Biurrun
Publication date
2020/1
Journal
Journal of Biogeography
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
72-86
Description
Aim
Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental scaling laws in ecology although their shape is still disputed. At larger areas, power laws best represent SARs. Yet, it remains unclear whether SARs follow other shapes at finer spatial grains in continuous vegetation. We asked which function describes SARs best at small grains and explored how sampling methodology or the environment influence SAR shape.
Location
Palaearctic grasslands and other non‐forested habitats.
Taxa
Vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens.
Methods
We used the GrassPlot database, containing standardized vegetation‐plot data from vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens spanning a wide range of grassland types throughout the Palaearctic and including 2,057 nested‐plot series with at least seven grain sizes ranging from 1 cm2 to 1,024 m2. Using nonlinear regression, we assessed the appropriateness of different SAR …
Scholar articles
J Dengler, TJ Matthews, MJ Steinbauer, S Wolfrum… - Journal of Biogeography, 2020