Locality or habitat? Exploring predictors of biodiversity in Amazonia

• Published in: Ecography (Copenhagen) Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 321 - 333
• Main Authors: Ritter, Camila D., Zizka, Alexander, Barnes, Christopher, Nilsson, R. Henrik, Roger, Fabian, Antonelli, Alexandre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2019; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; Biodiversity; Biodiversity gradient; Biologi; Biological Sciences; Biological Systematics; Biologisk systematik; Communities; Community composition; Composition; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Ecology; Ekologi; Environmental Sciences; Eukaryotes; Gene sequencing; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Habitats; Metabarcoding; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Mikrobiologi; Miljövetenskap; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; operational taxonomic units (OTUs); Organisms; Plant diversity; Prokaryotes; Soil mapping; Vertebrates

Amazonia is an environmentally heterogeneous and biologically megadiverse region, and its biodiversity varies considerably over space. However, existing knowledge on Amazonian biodiversity and its environmental determinants stems almost exclusively from studies of macroscopic above‐ground organisms,...