Bradford A. Hawkins

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between climate and biodiversity and conclude that the interaction between water and energy, either directly or indirectly, provides a strong explanation for globally extensive plant and animal diversity gradients, but for animals there also is a latitudinal shift in the relative importance of ambient energy vs. water moving from the poles to the equator.

TL;DR: The mounting evidence for the importance of niche conservatism to major topics in ecology and conservation and other areas where it may be important but has generally been overlooked is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the species richness of the birds of western/central Europe, north Africa and the Middle East using Moran's I coefficients and multiple regression, using both ordinary least-squares (OLS) and generalized least squares (GLS) assuming a spatial structure in the residuals, to identify the strongest predictors of richness.

TL;DR: This work rejects the energy–richness hypothesis in its standard form and considers some proposed modifications, and deriving and testing predictions based on their hypothesized mechanisms.

TL;DR: The authors examined several prominent hypotheses for climate-richness relationships, deriving and testing predictions based on their hypothesized mechanisms, including the more individuals hypothesis, the physiological tolerance hypothesis, and the speciation rate hypothesis.