Imperial College London
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ProfessorYanghuaWang

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Principal of Resource Geophysics Academy and Director of CRG
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1171yanghua.wang Website

 
 
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Location

 

2.40Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@unpublished{OMalley:2022:10.1101/2022.01.21.477239,
author = {OMalley, CPB and Roberts, GG and Mannion, PD and Hackel, J and Wang, Y},
doi = {10.1101/2022.01.21.477239},
publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
title = {Scale-dependent coherence of terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity with environment},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.21.477239},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - UNPB
AB  - Disentangling contributions from environmental variables is crucial for explaining global biodiversity patterns. We use wavelet power spectra to separate wavelength-dependent trends across Earth’s surface. Spectra reveal scale- and location-dependent coherence between species richness and topography (E), annual precipitation (Pn), temperature (Tm) and temperature range (ΔT). > 97% of richness of carnivorans, bats, songbirds, hummingbirds and amphibians resides at wavelengths  103 km. 30–69% is generated at scales  104 km. At these scales, richness across the Americas is anti-correlated with E and ΔT, and positively correlated with Pn and Tm. Carnivoran richness is incoherent with ΔT, suggesting insensitivity to temperature seasonality. Conversely, amphibian richness is anti-correlated with ΔT at large scales. At scales  103 km, richness is highest within the tropics. Terrestrial plateaux exhibit coherence between carnivoran richness and E at scales ~ 103 km, reflecting contributions of orogeny/epeirogeny to biodiversity. Similar findings result from transects across other continents. Scale-dependent sensitivities of vertebrate populations to climate are revealed.
AU  - OMalley,CPB
AU  - Roberts,GG
AU  - Mannion,PD
AU  - Hackel,J
AU  - Wang,Y
DO  - 10.1101/2022.01.21.477239
PB  - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
PY  - 2022///
TI  - Scale-dependent coherence of terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity with environment
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.21.477239
UR  - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.21.477239v2
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97702
ER  -
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