Gary G. Mittelbach

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: Methods to predict the additional mortality expected on a cohort due to a reduction in growth rate are developed, and the potential for predation risk to enforce size—class segregation is discussed, which leads de facto to resource partitioning.

TL;DR: The relationship between species richness and productivity has been extensively studied in the literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on positive, negative, or curvilinear relationships between productivity and species diversity.

TL;DR: Two major hypotheses for the origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient are reviewed, including the time and area hypothesis and the diversification rate hypothesis, which hold that tropical regions diversify faster due to higher rates of speciation, or due to lower extinction rates.

TL;DR: Reviews of the literature concerning deserts, boreal forests, tropical forests, lakes, and wetlands lead to the conclusion that extant data are insufficient to conclusively resolve the relationship between diversity and productivity, or that patterns are variable with mechanisms equally varied and complex.