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

Sporbert, Maria; Keil, Petr; Seidler, Gunnar; Bruelheide, Helge; Jandt, Ute; Aćić, Svetlana; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Chytrý, Milan; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; Golub, Valentin; Jansen, Florian; Kuzemko, Anna; Lenoir, Jonathan; Marcenò, Corrado; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Pérez‐Haase, Aaron; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Šilc, Urban; Tsiripidris, Ioannis; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vasilev, Kiril; Virtanen, Risto; Welk, Erik

doi:10.1111/jbi.13926

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20530

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Title:	Testing macroecological abundance patterns : the relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants
Authors:	Sporbert, Maria Keil, Petr Seidler, Gunnar Bruelheide, Helge Jandt, Ute Aćić, Svetlana Biurrun, Idoia Campos, Juan Antonio Čarni, Andraž Chytrý, Milan Ćušterevska, Renata Dengler, Jürgen Golub, Valentin Jansen, Florian Kuzemko, Anna Lenoir, Jonathan Marcenò, Corrado Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold Pérez‐Haase, Aaron Rūsiņa, Solvita Šilc, Urban Tsiripidris, Ioannis Vandvik, Vigdis Vasilev, Kiril Virtanen, Risto Welk, Erik
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1111/jbi.13926 10.21256/zhaw-20530
Published in:	Journal of Biogeography
Volume(Issue):	47
Issue:	10
Page(s):	2210
Pages to:	2222
Issue Date:	Oct-2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Wiley
ISSN:	0305-0270 1365-2699
Language:	English
Subjects:	Abundance; Climatic suitability; Commonness and rarity; Range size; Realized climatic niche; Resolution; Species distribution model; Vegetation‐plot data
Subject (DDC):	577: Ecology 580: Plants (Botany)
Abstract:	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.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20530
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Organisational Unit:	Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR)
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Sporbert, M., Keil, P., Seidler, G., Bruelheide, H., Jandt, U., Aćić, S., Biurrun, I., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Ćušterevska, R., Dengler, J., Golub, V., Jansen, F., Kuzemko, A., Lenoir, J., Marcenò, C., Moeslund, J. E., Pérez‐Haase, A., et al. (2020). Testing macroecological abundance patterns : the relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants. Journal of Biogeography, 47(10), 2210–2222. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926

Sporbert, M. et al. (2020) ‘Testing macroecological abundance patterns : the relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants’, Journal of Biogeography, 47(10), pp. 2210–2222. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926.

M. Sporbert et al., “Testing macroecological abundance patterns : the relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants,” Journal of Biogeography, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 2210–2222, Oct. 2020, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13926.

SPORBERT, Maria, Petr KEIL, Gunnar SEIDLER, Helge BRUELHEIDE, Ute JANDT, Svetlana AĆIĆ, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraž ČARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Renata ĆUŠTEREVSKA, Jürgen DENGLER, Valentin GOLUB, Florian JANSEN, Anna KUZEMKO, Jonathan LENOIR, Corrado MARCENÒ, Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Aaron PÉREZ‐HAASE, Solvita RŪSIŅA, Urban ŠILC, Ioannis TSIRIPIDRIS, Vigdis VANDVIK, Kiril VASILEV, Risto VIRTANEN und Erik WELK, 2020. Testing macroecological abundance patterns : the relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants. Journal of Biogeography. Oktober 2020. Bd. 47, Nr. 10, S. 2210–2222. DOI 10.1111/jbi.13926

Sporbert, Maria, Petr Keil, Gunnar Seidler, Helge Bruelheide, Ute Jandt, Svetlana Aćić, Idoia Biurrun, et al. 2020. “Testing Macroecological Abundance Patterns : The Relationship between Local Abundance and Range Size, Range Position and Climatic Suitability among European Vascular Plants.” Journal of Biogeography 47 (10): 2210–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926.

Sporbert, Maria, et al. “Testing Macroecological Abundance Patterns : The Relationship between Local Abundance and Range Size, Range Position and Climatic Suitability among European Vascular Plants.” Journal of Biogeography, vol. 47, no. 10, Oct. 2020, pp. 2210–22, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13926.