Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship
between local abundance and range size, range position and
climatic suitability among European vascular plants

J 2020

Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants

SPORBERT, Maria, Petr KEIL, Gunnar SEIDLER, Helge BRUELHEIDE, Ute JANDT et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants

Authors

SPORBERT, Maria (guarantor), Petr KEIL, Gunnar SEIDLER, Helge BRUELHEIDE, Ute JANDT, Svetlana ACIC, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraz CARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Renata CUSTEREVSKA, Juergen DENGLER, Valentin GOLUB, Florian JANSEN, Anna KUZEMKO (804 Ukraine, belonging to the institution), Jonathan LENOIR, Corrado MARCENO' (380 Italy, belonging to the institution), Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Aaron PEREZ-HAASE, Solvita RUSINA, Urban SILC, Ioannis TSIRIPIDRIS, Vigdis VANDVIK, Kiril VASILEV, Risto VIRTANEN and Erik WELK

Edition

Journal of Biogeography, Hoboken, Wiley, 2020, 0305-0270

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Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10618 Ecology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.324

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114389

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926

UT WoS

000546471500001

Keywords in English

abundance; climatic suitability; commonness and rarity; range size; realized climatic niche; resolution; species distribution models; vegetation-plot data

Abstract

V originále

Aim A fundamental question in macroecology centres around understanding the relationship between species' local abundance and their distribution in geographical and climatic space (i.e. the multi-dimensional climatic space or climatic niche). Here, we tested three macroecological hypotheses that link local abundance to the following range properties: (a) the abundance-range size relationship, (b) the abundance-range centre relationship and (c) the abundance-suitability relationship. Location Europe. Taxon Vascular plants. Methods Distribution range maps were extracted from the Chorological Database Halle to derive information on the range and niche sizes of 517 European vascular plant species. To estimate local abundance, we assessed samples from 744,513 vegetation plots in the European Vegetation Archive, where local species' abundance is available as plant cover per plot. We then calculated the 'centrality', that is, the distance between the location of the abundance observation and each species' range centre in geographical and climatic space. The climatic suitability of plot locations was estimated using coarse-grain species distribution models (SDMs). The relationships between centrality or climatic suitability with abundance was tested using linear models and quantile regression. We summarized the overall trend across species' regression slopes from linear models and quantile regression using a meta-analytical approach. Results We did not detect any positive relationships between a species' mean local abundance and the size of its geographical range or climatic niche. Contrasting yet significant correlations were detected between abundance and centrality or climatic suitability among species. Main conclusions Our results do not provide unequivocal support for any of the relationships tested, demonstrating that determining properties of species' distributions at large grains and extents might be of limited use for predicting local abundance, including current SDM approaches. We conclude that environmental factors influencing individual performance and local abundance are likely to differ from those factors driving plant species' distribution at coarse resolution and broad geographical extents.

Links

GX19-28491X, research and development project

Name: Centrum pro evropské vegetační syntézy (CEVS) (Acronym: CEVS)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

SPORBERT, Maria, Petr KEIL, Gunnar SEIDLER, Helge BRUELHEIDE, Ute JANDT, Svetlana ACIC, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraz CARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Renata CUSTEREVSKA, Juergen DENGLER, Valentin GOLUB, Florian JANSEN, Anna KUZEMKO, Jonathan LENOIR, Corrado MARCENO', Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Aaron PEREZ-HAASE, Solvita RUSINA, Urban SILC, Ioannis TSIRIPIDRIS, Vigdis VANDVIK, Kiril VASILEV, Risto VIRTANEN and Erik WELK. Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants. Journal of Biogeography. Hoboken: Wiley, 2020, vol. 47, No 10, p. 2210-2222. ISSN 0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926.

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PB  - Wiley
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KW  - resolution
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N2  - Aim A fundamental question in macroecology centres around understanding the relationship between species' local abundance and their distribution in geographical and climatic space (i.e. the multi-dimensional climatic space or climatic niche). Here, we tested three macroecological hypotheses that link local abundance to the following range properties: (a) the abundance-range size relationship, (b) the abundance-range centre relationship and (c) the abundance-suitability relationship. Location Europe. Taxon Vascular plants. Methods Distribution range maps were extracted from the Chorological Database Halle to derive information on the range and niche sizes of 517 European vascular plant species. To estimate local abundance, we assessed samples from 744,513 vegetation plots in the European Vegetation Archive, where local species' abundance is available as plant cover per plot. We then calculated the 'centrality', that is, the distance between the location of the abundance observation and each species' range centre in geographical and climatic space. The climatic suitability of plot locations was estimated using coarse-grain species distribution models (SDMs). The relationships between centrality or climatic suitability with abundance was tested using linear models and quantile regression. We summarized the overall trend across species' regression slopes from linear models and quantile regression using a meta-analytical approach. Results We did not detect any positive relationships between a species' mean local abundance and the size of its geographical range or climatic niche. Contrasting yet significant correlations were detected between abundance and centrality or climatic suitability among species. Main conclusions Our results do not provide unequivocal support for any of the relationships tested, demonstrating that determining properties of species' distributions at large grains and extents might be of limited use for predicting local abundance, including current SDM approaches. We conclude that environmental factors influencing individual performance and local abundance are likely to differ from those factors driving plant species' distribution at coarse resolution and broad geographical extents.
ER  -

SPORBERT, Maria, Petr KEIL, Gunnar SEIDLER, Helge BRUELHEIDE, Ute JANDT, Svetlana ACIC, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraz CARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Renata CUSTEREVSKA, Juergen DENGLER, Valentin GOLUB, Florian JANSEN, Anna KUZEMKO, Jonathan LENOIR, Corrado MARCENO', Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Aaron PEREZ-HAASE, Solvita RUSINA, Urban SILC, Ioannis TSIRIPIDRIS, Vigdis VANDVIK, Kiril VASILEV, Risto VIRTANEN and Erik WELK. Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants. \textit{Journal of Biogeography}. Hoboken: Wiley, 2020, vol.~47, No~10, p.~2210-2222. ISSN~0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926.

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