Range and Richness of Vascular Land Plants

The Role of Variable Light

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Earth Sciences, Geophysics
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Author: Peter S. Eagleson ISBN: 9781118671559
Publisher: Wiley Publication: May 7, 2013
Imprint: American Geophysical Union Language: English
Author: Peter S. Eagleson
ISBN: 9781118671559
Publisher: Wiley
Publication: May 7, 2013
Imprint: American Geophysical Union
Language: English

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.

This is a research monograph and not a textbook. Here I demonstrate analytically how the observed, opposing, latitudinal gradients in the average range and richness of local vascular land plant species are (outside the moist-tropical zone, at least) driven primarily by the local temporal and spatial variability of shortwave radiative flux at the canopy top. (The term "richness" as used here means the local number of different vascular land plant species unlimited by the size of the area sampled.) The hypotheses are simplistic but are nevertheless convincingly accurate in extratropical latitudes when tested against observations over the continental land surfaces of the Northern Hemisphere, the only areas tested here.

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.

This is a research monograph and not a textbook. Here I demonstrate analytically how the observed, opposing, latitudinal gradients in the average range and richness of local vascular land plant species are (outside the moist-tropical zone, at least) driven primarily by the local temporal and spatial variability of shortwave radiative flux at the canopy top. (The term "richness" as used here means the local number of different vascular land plant species unlimited by the size of the area sampled.) The hypotheses are simplistic but are nevertheless convincingly accurate in extratropical latitudes when tested against observations over the continental land surfaces of the Northern Hemisphere, the only areas tested here.

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