Range and Richness of Vascular Land Plants: The Role of Variable Light

Title Page
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Copyright
......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Universal Laws of Life?......Page 18
Historical summary......Page 19
Modeling philosophy......Page 21
Bioclimatic basis for local community structure......Page 23
Range......Page 25
Richness......Page 29
Major simplifications......Page 30
Principal findings......Page 31
“Zeroth-Order? Analysis......Page 33
Growing season......Page 34
Solar radiation......Page 35
Zonal homogeneity......Page 42
Looking ahead......Page 44
Introduction and definitions......Page 45
Range of local mean species as determined by local distributions about the mean......Page 46
Theoretical estimation of the range with climatic forcing by SW flux only......Page 50
Range of local modal species versus mean of local species’ ranges......Page 53
Probability mass of the distribution of observed local species......Page 56
Analytical summary for climatic forcing by SW flux only......Page 57
Point-by-point estimation of range versus observation for North America......Page 59
A thought experiment on the variation of SW fluxin an isotropic atmosphere......Page 63
Range of modal species at maxima and minima of the SW flux......Page 65
Gradient estimation of range versus observation for North America......Page 66
Point-by-point estimation of range versus observation for the Northern Hemisphere......Page 69
Gradient estimation of range versus observation for the Northern Hemisphere......Page 74
Low-latitude smoothing of range by latitudinal averaging of the growing season......Page 76
Range as a reflection of the bioclimatic dispersion of species......Page 77
A high-latitude shift in bioclimatic control from light to heat?......Page 79
A look ahead......Page 82
Introduction......Page 83
From continuous to discrete distribution of local species......Page 86
Local SW flux as a stationary Poisson stochastic process......Page 87
Distribution of C3 species?supporting radiation interceptedin a growing season......Page 89
Moments of C3 species?supporting radiation interceptedin a growing season......Page 91
Moments of the number of C3 species?supporting cloud events in a growing season......Page 92
From climatic disturbance to C3 species germination......Page 93
Parameter estimation......Page 94
Predicted potential richness versus observed richness......Page 96
The theoretical tie between range and richness......Page 98
Reductionism......Page 99
CHAPTER 5 Summary and Conclusions......Page 100
Mathematical approximations in range calculation......Page 102
Evaluation of range prediction......Page 103
Evaluation of richness prediction......Page 105
Finis......Page 106
The Earth system......Page 107
Photosynthetic capacity of the C3 leaf......Page 108
Mass transfer from free atmosphere to chloroplasts......Page 110
Exponential approximation to the C3 photosynthetic capacity curve......Page 115
Potential assimilation efficiency of C3 leaves......Page 116
Darwinian operating state of the individual C3 leaf......Page 118
The univariate bioclimatic function at leaf scale......Page 119
Idealized geometry of the leaf layer......Page 122
Vertical flux of radiation in a closed canopy......Page 124
C3 species parameters......Page 127
Bioclimatic function at canopy scale......Page 128
Local evolutionary equilibrium: An hypothesis......Page 129
The equilibrium hypothesis at local canopy scale......Page 132
Summary......Page 136
Notation......Page 137
Glossary......Page 147
Bibliography......Page 151
Additional Reading......Page 157
Additional Reading......Page 158
Author Index......Page 159
Subject Index......Page 161