This review focuses on three levels of biodiversity: species, communities, and biomes.
Communities are assemblages of interacting species, such as spruce–fir forests or tallgrass …

Anthropogenic global changes threaten species and the ecosystem services upon which
society depends. Effective solutions to this multifaceted crisis need scientific responses …

Background Policy and decision-making processes are routinely challenged by the complex
and dynamic nature of environmental health problems. System dynamics modelling has …

It is often claimed that we do not understand the forces driving the global diversity gradient.
However, an extensive literature suggests that contemporary climate constrains terrestrial …

… (JL Wylie and DJ Currie, unpublished manuscript). In addition, PET is consistently the best
predictor of species richness in temperate regions on other continents (DJ Currie and H. Lee, …

… scale variation in taxonomic richness - Currie - 2004 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library
… 2003a), whereas ɛ – I correlation are substantially weaker (Currie & Fritz 1993). This is also …

Understanding the causes of spatial variation in species richness is a major research focus
of biogeography and macroecology. Gridded environmental data and species richness maps …

Biologists have long recognized the striking geographical variability of species richness 1 . A
primary goal of contemporary ecology is to identify the factors responsible for this variability …

Aim We surveyed the empirical literature to determine how well six diversity hypotheses
account for spatial patterns in species richness across varying scales of grain and extent. …

… This project was funded by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
post graduate scholarship to RL Mackey and research grant to DJ Currie. We would like to …