The relationship between biodiversity and wetland cover varies across regions of the conterminous United States.

ABSTRACT: Identifying the factors that determine the spatial distribution of biodiversity is a major focus of ecological research. These factors vary with scale from interspecific interactions to global climatic cycles. Wetlands are important biodiversity hotspots and contributors of ecosystem services, but the association between proportional wetland cover and species richness has shown mixed results. It is not well known as to what extent there is a relationship between proportional wetland cover and species richness, especially at the sub-continental scale. We used the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) to model wetland cover for the conterminous United States and the National Land Cover Database to estimate wetland change between 2001 and 2011. We used a Bayesian spatial Poisson model to estimate

SUBMITTER: Dertien JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7194442 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature