Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales - Stein, Anke; Gerstner, Katharina; Kreft, Holger; Arita, Hector (Ecology letters, 2014)
Keywords: Animal and plant ecology; Animal behavior; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Biodiversity; Biological and medical sciences; climate; Ecology; Ecosystem; ecosystems; Environment; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Habitat diversity; habitat structure; habitats; Heterogeneity; land cover; landscapes; meta-analysis; meta-regression; Plants; plants (botany); Population Dynamics; robust variance estimation; soil; spatial scale; species diversity; Species richness; Taxa; topographical heterogeneity; topography; Vegetation; vegetation structure; habitat structure; Regression; meta-analysis; Environmental factor; Spatial scale; Habitat diversity; Variance; robust variance estimation; Metaanalysis; meta-regression; topographical heterogeneity; Species diversity; Heterogeneity; Biome; Topography; Habitat; Vegetation structure; Species richness; vegetation structure; species diversity; spatial scale