Journal of Geographical Sciences ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (2): 280-290.doi: 10.1007/s11442-022-1947-z
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Hong QIAN1(), ZHANG Yangjian2, Robert E. RICKLEFS3, Xianli WANG4,5
Received:
2021-07-29
Accepted:
2021-11-18
Online:
2022-02-25
Published:
2022-04-25
About author:
Hong Qian, E-mail: hong.qian@illinoisstatemuseum.org
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Hong QIAN, ZHANG Yangjian, Robert E. RICKLEFS, Xianli WANG. Relationship of minimum winter temperature and temperature seasonality to the northern range limit and species richness of trees in North America[J].Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2022, 32(2): 280-290.
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Figure 1
Geographic variation in tree species richness in North America north of Mexico. Each quadrat is 110 km by 110 km. Species richness in quadrats with land area less than 75% of a full quadrat is not shown. The 38 longitudinal bands between the two thick vertical lines were used in data analysis in this study.
Figure 2
The means (± se) of (a) the absolute value of the correlation coefficient between northern latitude limit and either minimum temperature (Tmin) or temperature seasonality (Tseas), and absolute value of standardized partial regression coefficient of northern latitude limit against minimum temperature (Tmin) or temperature seasonality based on (b) ordinary least squares (OLS) and (c) simultaneous autoregression (SAR) models for 291 tree species in North America
Figure 3
Results of a partial regression analysis (partitioning the variance). The variance in the response variable is partitioned into four portions: (a) uniquely accounted for by minimum temperature (Tmin), (b) accounted for jointly by minimum temperature and temperature seasonality (Tseas), (c) uniquely accounted for by temperature seasonality, and (d) unexplained variance.
Figure 4
Comparison between the correlation between tree northern range limit and minimum temperature (Tmin) and between tree northern range limit and temperature seasonality (Tseas) for 38 longitudinal bands in North America (see Figure 1). Longitudinal bands were sorted according to absolute values of minimum temperature increasing from left to right.
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