Dawn M. Kaufman

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: An extensive survey of the literature is conducted and a synthetic assessment of the degree to which variation in patterns is a consequence of characteristics of scale or taxon is provided.

TL;DR: The shapes of ranges and the dynamic changes in range boundaries reflect the interacting influences of limiting environmental conditions and dispersal/extinction dynamics.

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.