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DOI	10.1086/727518
	Uncovering Broad Macroecological Patterns by Comparing the Shape of Species' Distributions along Environmental Gradients
	Mora, Bernat Bramon; Guisan, Antoine; Alexander, Jake M.
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0003-0147
EISSN	1537-5323
起始页码	203
结束页码	1
卷号	203 期号:1
英文摘要	Species' distributions can take many different forms. For example, fat-tailed or skewed distributions are very common in nature, as these can naturally emerge as a result of individual variability and asymmetric environmental tolerances, respectively. Studying the basic shape of distributions can teach us a lot about the ways climatic processes and historical contingencies shape ecological communities. Yet we still lack a general understanding of how their shapes and properties compare to each other along gradients. Here, we use Bayesian nonlinear models to quantify range shape properties in empirical plant distributions. With this approach, we are able to distil the shape of plant distributions and compare them along gradients and across species. Studying the relationship between distribution properties, we revealed the existence of broad macroecological patterns along environmental gradients-such as those expected from Rapoport's rule and the abiotic stress limitation hypothesis. We also find that some aspects of the shape of observed ranges-such as kurtosis and skewness of the distributions-could be intrinsic properties of species or the result of their historical contexts. Overall, our modeling approach and results untangle the general shape of plant distributions and provide a mapping of how this changes along environmental gradients.
英文关键词	community assembly; community modeling; community distribution; joint species distribution models; nonlinear response curves; environmental filtering
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:001096888200001
来源期刊	AMERICAN NATURALIST
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/295651
作者单位	Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Lausanne; University of Lausanne
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mora, Bernat Bramon,Guisan, Antoine,Alexander, Jake M.. Uncovering Broad Macroecological Patterns by Comparing the Shape of Species' Distributions along Environmental Gradients[J],2024,203(1).
APA	Mora, Bernat Bramon,Guisan, Antoine,&Alexander, Jake M..(2024).Uncovering Broad Macroecological Patterns by Comparing the Shape of Species' Distributions along Environmental Gradients.AMERICAN NATURALIST,203(1).
MLA	Mora, Bernat Bramon,et al."Uncovering Broad Macroecological Patterns by Comparing the Shape of Species' Distributions along Environmental Gradients".AMERICAN NATURALIST 203.1(2024).