Geographic patterns of insect diversity across China's nature reserves: The roles of niche conservatism and range overlapping.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Insects are the most species-rich clade in the world, but the broad-scale diversity pattern and the potential drivers have not been well documented for the clade as a whole. We aimed to examine the relative roles of contemporary and historical climate, niche conservatism, range overlapping, and other environmental factors on geographic patterns of species richness and phylogenetic structure, for insects across China.

Location

China.

Methods

We collected insect data from 184 nature reserves and examined geographic patterns of species richness and mean root distance (MRD, a metric of the evolutionary development of assemblages) for different biogeographic affinities (Palearctic, Oriental, and widespread species) and for clades originated during the warm and cold geo

SUBMITTER: Lyu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141035 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature