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The patterns and causes of elevational diversity gradients by Sanders, Nathan J., Rahbek, Carsten

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The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate by Jing, Xin, Sanders, Nathan J., Shi, Yu, Chu, Haiyan, Classen, Aimée T., Zhao, Ke, Chen, Litong, Shi, Yue, Jiang, Youxu, He, Jin-Sheng

“…Plant biodiversity is often correlated with ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about the relative and combined effects of…”
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Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change by Sundqvist, Maja K., Sanders, Nathan J., Wardle, David A.

“…Community structure and ecosystem processes often vary along elevational gradients. Their responses to elevation are commonly driven by changes in temperature,…”
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Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant–pollinator networks by CaraDonna, Paul J., Petry, William K., Brennan, Ross M., Cunningham, James L., Bronstein, Judith L., Waser, Nickolas M., Sanders, Nathan J., Jordan, Ferenc

“…Whether species interactions are static or change over time has wide‐reaching ecological and evolutionary consequences. However, species interaction networks…”
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Fifty Years of Mountain Passes: A Perspective on Dan Janzen’s Classic Article by Sheldon, Kimberly S., Huey, Raymond B., Kaspari, Michael, Sanders, Nathan J.

“…In 1967, Dan Janzen published “Why Mountain Passes Are Higher in the Tropics” in The American Naturalist. Janzen’s seminal article has captured the attention…”
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Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small by Shade, Ashley, Dunn, Robert R., Blowes, Shane A., Keil, Petr, Bohannan, Brendan J.M., Herrmann, Martina, Küsel, Kirsten, Lennon, Jay T., Sanders, Nathan J., Storch, David, Chase, Jonathan

“…Macroecology is the study of the mechanisms underlying general patterns of ecology across scales. Research in microbial ecology and macroecology have long been…”
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Consistently inconsistent drivers of microbial diversity and abundance at macroecological scales by Hendershot, John Nicholas, Read, Quentin D., Henning, Jeremiah A., Sanders, Nathan J., Classen, Aimée T.

“…Macroecology seeks to understand broad-scale patterns in the diversity and abundance of organisms, but macroecologists typically study aboveground…”
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Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species by Read, Quentin D, Moorhead, Leigh C, Swenson, Nathan G, Bailey, Joseph K, Sanders, Nathan J, Fox, Charles

“…Spatial variation in filters imposed by the abiotic environment causes variation in functional traits within and among plant species. This is abundantly clear…”
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Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity by Machac, Antonin, Janda, Milan, Dunn, Robert R., Sanders, Nathan J.

“…A central focus of ecology and biogeography is to determine the factors that govern spatial variation in biodiversity. Here, we examined patterns of ant…”
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Environmental and historical imprints on beta diversity: insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients by Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Sanders, Nathan J., Normand, Signe, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Ferrier, Simon, Gove, Aaron D., Dunn, Robert R.

“…A common approach for analysing geographical variation in biodiversity involves using linear models to determine the rate at which species similarity declines…”
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Elevational gradients in bird diversity in the Eastern Himalaya: an evaluation of distribution patterns and their underlying mechanisms by Acharya, Bhoj Kumar, Sanders, Nathan J, Vijayan, Lalitha, Chettri, Basundhara

“…Understanding diversity patterns and the mechanisms underlying those patterns along elevational gradients is critically important for conservation efforts in…”
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Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process by Crutsinger, Gregory M, Collins, Michael D, Fordyce, James A, Gompert, Zachariah, Nice, Chris C, Sanders, Nathan J

“…Theory predicts, and recent empirical studies have shown, that the diversity of plant species determines the diversity of associated herbivores and mediates…”
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Bottom–up and top–down effects on plant communities: nutrients limit productivity, but insects determine diversity and composition by Souza, Lara, Zelikova, Tamara Jane, Sanders, Nathan J

“…Top–down effects of herbivores and bottom–up effects of nutrients shape productivity and diversity across ecosystems, yet their single and combined effects on…”
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Turnover in butterfly communities and traits along an elevational gradient in the eastern Himalaya, India by Dewan, Sailendra, Sanders, Nathan J., Acharya, Bhoj Kumar

“…Beta (β)‐diversity varies along environmental gradients, and understanding what drives such variation might provide insights into the factors that shape…”
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Compounded Effects of Climate Change and Habitat Alteration Shift Patterns of Butterfly Diversity by Forister, Matthew L., McCall, Andrew C., Sanders, Nathan J., Fordyce, James A., Thorne, James H., O'Brien, Joshua, Waetjen, David P., Shapiro, Arthur M., Berenbaum, May R.

“…Climate change and habitat destruction have been linked to global declines in vertebrate biodiversity, including mammals, amphibians, birds, and fishes…”
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origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes by Graham, Catherine H, Carnaval, Ana C, Cadena, Carlos Daniel, Zamudio, Kelly R, Roberts, Trina E, Parra, Juan Luis, McCain, Christy M, Bowie, Rauri C. K, Moritz, Craig, Baines, Stephen B, Schneider, Christopher J, VanDerWal, Jeremy, Rahbek, Carsten, Kozak, Kenneth H, Sanders, Nathan J

“…Determining how ecological and evolutionary processes produce spatial variation in local species richness remains an unresolved challenge. Using mountains as a…”
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A multiscale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation on diversity gradients by McGlinn, Daniel J., Engel, Thore, Blowes, Shane A., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Knight, Tiffany M., McGill, Brian J., Sanders, Nathan J., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Disentangling the drivers of diversity gradients can be challenging. The Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB) framework decomposes scale-dependent changes in…”
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The biogeography of prediction error: why does the introduced range of the fire ant over-predict its native range? by Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Weltzin, Jake F., Sanders, Nathan J., Dunn, Robert R.

“…Aim The use of species distribution models (SDMs) to predict biological invasions is a rapidly developing area of ecology. However, most studies investigating…”
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Niche filtering rather than partitioning shapes the structure of temperate forest ant communities by Fowler, David, Lessard, Jean‐Philippe, Sanders, Nathan J, Tylianakis, Jason

“…An ever‐increasing number of studies use tools from community phylogenetics to infer the processes underlying the assembly of communities. However, very few…”
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Sodium‐enriched nectar shapes plant–pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow by VanValkenburg, Ethan, Gonçalves Souza, Thiago, Sanders, Nathan J., CaraDonna, Paul

“…Many plants have evolved nutrient rewards to attract pollinators to flowers, but most research has focused on the sugar content of floral nectar resources…”
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