Authors
Severin DH Irl, David EV Harter, Manuel J Steinbauer, David Gallego Puyol, José María Fernández‐Palacios, Anke Jentsch, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Publication date
2015/11
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
103
Issue
6
Pages
1621-1633
Description
- Climate and topography are among the most fundamental drivers of plant diversity. Here, we assessed the importance of climate and topography in explaining diversity patterns of species richness, endemic richness and endemicity on the landscape scale of an oceanic island and evaluated the independent contribution of climatic and topographic variables to spatial diversity patterns.
- We constructed a presence/absence matrix of perennial endemic and native vascular plant species (including subspecies) in 890 plots on the environmentally very heterogeneous island of La Palma, Canary Islands. Species richness, endemic richness and endemicity were recorded, interpolated and related to climate (i.e. variables describing temperature, precipitation, variability and climatic rarity) and topography (i.e. topographic complexity, solar radiation, geologic age, slope and aspect). We used multimodel inference, spatial …
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SDH Irl, DEV Harter, MJ Steinbauer, D Gallego Puyol… - Journal of Ecology, 2015