{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Lamanna C"],"funding":["European Research Council"],"pagination":["13745-50"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4183280"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["111(38)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The processes causing the latitudinal gradient in species richness remain elusive. Ecological theories for the origin of biodiversity gradients, such as competitive exclusion, neutral dynamics, and environmental filtering, make predictions for how functional diversity should vary at the alpha (within local assemblages), beta (among assemblages), and gamma (regional pool) scales. We test these predictions by quantifying hypervolumes constructed from functional traits representing major axes of plant strategy variation (specific leaf area, plant height, and seed mass) in tree assemblages spanning the temperate and tropical New World. Alpha-scale trait volume decreases with absolute latitude and is often lower than sampling expectation, consistent with environmental filtering theory. Beta-sca"],"journal":["Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"],"pubmed_title":["Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient."],"pmcid":["PMC4183280"],"funding_grant_id":["310886"],"pubmed_authors":["Svenning JC","Kraft NJ","McGill BJ","Peet RK","Donoghue JC","Boyle B","Jorgensen PM","Lamanna C","Dolins S","Marcuse-Kubitza A","Morueta-Holme N","Enquist BJ","Violle C","Sandel B","Simova I","Thiers B","Piel WH","Schildhauer M","Blonder B","Buzzard V","Spencer N","Regetz J","Wiser SK"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.","description":"The processes causing the latitudinal gradient in species richness remain elusive. Ecological theories for the origin of biodiversity gradients, such as competitive exclusion, neutral dynamics, and environmental filtering, make predictions for how functional diversity should vary at the alpha (within local assemblages), beta (among assemblages), and gamma (regional pool) scales. We test these predictions by quantifying hypervolumes constructed from functional traits representing major axes of plant strategy variation (specific leaf area, plant height, and seed mass) in tree assemblages spanning the temperate and tropical New World. Alpha-scale trait volume decreases with absolute latitude and is often lower than sampling expectation, consistent with environmental filtering theory. Beta-sca","dates":{"release":"2014-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2014 Sep","modification":"2026-04-16T15:17:19.453Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:36:52Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4183280","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25225365"],"doi":["10.1073/pnas.1317722111"]}}