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Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity.
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Francesco Maria SabatiniGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. francescomaria.sabatini@unibo.it.ORCID 0000-0002-7202-7697
Borja Jiménez-AlfaroMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108, Halle, Saale, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6601-9597
Ute JandtGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3177-3669
Milan ChytrýMasaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8122-3075
Richard FieldUniversity of Nottingham, School of Geography, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2613-2688
Michael KesslerUniversity of Zurich, Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jonathan LenoirUMR CNRS 7058 "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 1 Rue des Louvels, 80037, Amiens Cedex 1, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0638-9582
Franziska SchrodtUniversity of Nottingham, School of Geography, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9053-8872
Susan K WiserManaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Ecosystems and Conservation, 54 Gerald Street, 7608, Lincoln, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-8938-8181
Mohammed A S Arfin KhanShahjalal University of Science and Technology, Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, Akhalia, 3114, Sylhet, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0001-6275-7023
Fabio AttorreSapienza University of Rome, Department of Environmental Biology, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7744-2195
Luis CayuelaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos, Department of Biology and Geology, Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, c/ Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3562-2662
Michele De SanctisSapienza University of Rome, Department of Environmental Biology, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7280-6199
Jürgen DenglerZurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Vegetation Ecology Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Grüentalstr. 14, 8820, Wädenswil, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3221-660X
Sylvia HaiderGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2966-0534
Mohamed Z HatimWageningen University and Research, Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) Department, Plant Ecology and Nature conservation Group (PEN), Wageningen Campus, Building 100 (Lumen), P.O. Box Postbus 47, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0872-5108
Adrian IndreicaTransilvania University of Brasov, Department of Silviculture, Sirul Beethoven 1, 500123, Brasov, Romania.
Florian JansenUniversity of Rostock, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6, 18059, Rostock, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0331-5185
Aníbal PauchardUniversidad de Concepción, Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB). Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Victoria 631, 4030000, Concepción, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-1284-3163
Robert K PeetUniversity of North Carolina, Department of Biology, Campus Box 3280, 27599-3280, Chapel HIll, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2823-6587
Petr PetříkCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Vegetation Ecology, Zámek 1, 25243, Průhonice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-8518-6737
Valério D PillarUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Department of Ecology, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6408-2891
Brody SandelSanta Clara University, Department of Biology, 500 El Camino Real, 95053, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Marco SchmidtPalmengarten Frankfurt, Scientific Service, Siesmayerstr. 61, 60323, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6087-6117
Zhiyao TangPeking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Yiheyuan Rd. 5, 100871, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0154-6403
Peter van BodegomInstitute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, 2333 CC, Leiden, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0771-4500
Kiril VassilevInstitute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources, Acad. Georgi Bonchev St., bl. 23, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Cyrille ViolleCEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
Esteban Alvarez-DavilaUniversidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Sede Nacional, Cl. 14 Sur # 14-23, 111411, Bogotá, Colombia.
Priya DavidarSigur Nature Trust, Chadapatti, Mavinhalla PO, Nilgiris, 643223, Mavinhalla, India.ORCID 0000-0003-2463-6743
Jiri DolezalCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Vegetation Ecology, Zámek 1, 25243, Průhonice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-5829-4051
Bruno HéraultCirad, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.ORCID 0000-0002-6950-7286
Antonio Galán-de-MeraUniversidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Laboratorio de Botánica, Urbanización Montepríncipe, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1652-5931
Jorge JiménezUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Escuela de Biología, Ciudad Universitaria, zona 12, 1012, Guatemala City, Guatemala.ORCID 0000-0003-0342-0986
Stephan KambachMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108, Halle, Saale, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3585-5837
Sebastian Kepfer-RojasUniversity of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Rolighedsvej, 23, 2400, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-1681-2877
Holger KreftUniversity of Göttingen, Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4471-8236
Felipe LezamaUniversidad de la República, Departamento de Sistemas ambientales, Facultad de Agronomía, Av. Garzón 780, 12900, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Reynaldo Linares-PalominoSmithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7631-5549
Abel Monteagudo MendozaUniversidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Av. de la Cultura 733, Cusco, Peru.
Justin K N'DjaUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Laboratoire de Botanique, Campus de Cocody, Abdijan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Oliver L PhillipsUniversity of Leeds, School of Geography, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8993-6168
Gonzalo Rivas-TorresEstación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
Petr SklenářCharles University, Department of Botany, Benátská 2, 12801, Prague, Czech Republic.
Karina SpezialeINIBOMA (CONICET-UNCOMA), Department of Ecology, Pasaje Gutierrez 125, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-2224-2097
Ben J StrohbachNamibia University of Science and Technlogy, Biodiversity Research Center, Faculty of Natural Resources and Spatial Sciences, 13 Jackson Kaujeua Street, 10005, Windhoek, Namibia.ORCID 0000-0002-1542-1989
Rodolfo Vásquez MartínezJardín Botánico de Missouri Oxapampa, Bolognesi Mz-E-6, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru.
Hua-Feng WangCollege of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China.
Karsten WescheGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0088-6492
Helge BruelheideGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3135-0356
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Abstract
Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (local species richness) for vascular plants at three different spatial grains, for forests and non-forests. We show that alpha diversity is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), but regional 'scaling anomalies' (deviations from the positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly in Eurasian temperate forests with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness and many African tropical forests with disproportionally higher coarse-grained richness. The influence of different climatic, topographic and biogeographical variables on alpha diversity also varies across grains. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.
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