Holger Kreft

TL;DR: This work calculates 51 measures of EH within grid cells world-wide across three spatial grains to investigate similarities and differences among these measures and compares the association between species richness of terrestrial mammals and each EH measure to assess the impact of methodological choices on EH–richness relationships found by standard macroecological modelling approaches.

TL;DR: This work focused on entire archipelagos using species richness of vascular plants on 23 archipelago worldwide and their 174 constituent islands and found that β and the spatial arrangement of islands are essential to understand insular ecology and evolution.

TL;DR: The divergences between potential and realized patterns of richness, ranges and abundances indicate the importance of demography and biotic interaction for generating patterns at species and community levels, and confirms the usefulness of mechanistic niche models for guiding further research integrating ecological niche, community ecology and biogeography.

TL;DR: Differences in SARs among land plants challenge the neutral theory that the accumulation of species richness on islands is controlled exclusively by extrinsic factors and highlight the importance of applying integrative frameworks that take both environmental context and taxonomic idiosyncrasies into account.

TL;DR: This study investigated how geographically varying determinants of SARs affect species richness estimates of vascular plants at the global scale and incorporated variation into SARs, support-ing the hypothesis that energy availability complements evolutionary history ingenerating species richness patterns.