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@article{1344797,
author = {JiménezandAlfaro, Borja and Chytrý, Milan and Mucina, Ladislav and Grace, James B. and Rejmánek, Marcel},
article_location = {Hoboken},
article_number = {5},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1972},
keywords = {Animal diversity; diversity patterns; energy hypothesis; habitat heterogeneity; plant community; productivity; vegetation},
language = {eng},
issn = {2045-7758},
journal = {Ecology and Evolution},
title = {Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns},
url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1972/full},
volume = {6},
year = {2016}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1344797
AU - Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja - Chytrý, Milan - Mucina, Ladislav - Grace, James B. - Rejmánek, Marcel
PY - 2016
TI - Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns
JF - Ecology and Evolution
VL - 6
IS - 5
SP - 1515-1526
EP - 1515-1526
PB - Wiley
SN - 20457758
KW - Animal diversity
KW - diversity patterns
KW - energy hypothesis
KW - habitat heterogeneity
KW - plant community
KW - productivity
KW - vegetation
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1972/full
N2 - Broad-scale animal diversity patterns have been traditionally explained by hypotheses focused on climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity, without considering the direct influence of vegetation structure and composition. However, integrating these factors when considering plant-animal correlates still poses a major challenge because plant communities are controlled by abiotic factors that may, at the same time, influence animal distributions. By testing whether the number and variation of plant community types in Europe explain country-level diversity in six animal groups, we propose a conceptual framework in which vegetation diversity represents a bridge between abiotic factors and animal diversity. We show that vegetation diversity explains variation in animal richness not accounted for by altitudinal range or potential evapotranspiration, being the best predictor for butterflies, beetles, and amphibians. Moreover, the dissimilarity of plant community types explains the highest proportion of variation in animal assemblages across the studied regions, an effect that outperforms the effect of climate and their shared contribution with pure spatial variation. Our results at the country level suggest that vegetation diversity, as estimated from broad-scale classifications of plant communities, may contribute to our understanding of animal richness and may be disentangled, at least to a degree, from climate-energy and abiotic habitat heterogeneity.
ER -
JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Borja, Milan CHYTRÝ, Ladislav MUCINA, James B. GRACE and Marcel REJMÁNEK. Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns. \textit{Ecology and Evolution}. Hoboken: Wiley, vol.~6, No~5, p.~1515-1526. ISSN~2045-7758. doi:10.1002/ece3.1972. 2016.
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