Climatic and vegetational drivers of insect beta diversity at the continental scale.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We construct a framework for mapping pattern and drivers of insect diversity at the continental scale and use it to test whether and which environmental gradients drive insect beta diversity.

Location

Global; North and Central America; Western Europe.

Time period

21st century.

Major taxa studied

Insects.

Methods

An informatics system was developed to integrate terrestrial data on insects with environmental parameters. We mined repositories of data for distribution, climatic data were retrieved (WorldClim), and vegetation parameters inferred from remote sensing analysis (MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields). Beta diversity between sites was calculated and then modeled with two methods, Mantel test with multiple regression and generalized dissimilarity

SUBMITTER: Chesters D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953656 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature