Ecological Archives E088-005-A4

**Christy M. McCain. 2007. Area and mammalian elevational diversity. Ecology 88:76–86.**

Appendix D. Comparisons of diversity peaks for the empirical diversity curve with area-corrected diversity curves of the various corrections methods.

TABLE D1. The elevation of the diversity peak for the empirical diversity curve and for the area-corrected diversity curves using curvilinear (S=cA^z), semi-logarithmic (S/log A) and linear corrections. The curvilinear correction method is calculated for the mountain specific z value, the taxon specific z value and its 95% upper and lower confidence limits, and the canonical z-value of 0.25. The canonical value is also the upper 95% CL for NVSM so is not repeated. Bold values show changes in peak location among z values >50m. [Mountains ordered by latitude S-N.]

	Mtn. Z value	Empirical	Curvilinear (z values)					Semi-Log.	Linear
NVSM Transects			*Mtn z*	*0.19*	*0.22*	*0.25*
Madagascar	0.13	1300	1750	1950	1950	1950		1300	1300
New Guinea	0.56	1550	2250	1550	1550	1550		1550	1550
Rwenzori Mtns., Uganda	0.31	2250	2550	2500	2500	2500		2450	2400
Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo	0.39	950	1550	1550	1550	1550		950	950
Costa Rica	0.24	1250	1250	1250	1250	1250		1250	1250
Great Smokey Mtns., TN and NC, USA	0.06	650	550	2050	2050	2050		650	550
Abajo Mtns., UT, USA^‡	0.14	2550	2550	2550	2550	2550		2550	2550
Yosemite NP, CA, USA	0.22	1150, 1850	1850	1850	1850	1850		1150, 1850	1850
Henry Mtns., UT, USA^‡	0.29	1850, 2450	2450	2450	2450	2450		2450	2450
Tushar Mtns., UT, USA	0.40	2650	3150	2650	2650	2650		2650	2650
La Sal Mtns UT and CO, USA	0.53	1750	3050	2850	2850	2850		1750, 3000	2850
Pavant Mtns., UT, USA	0.51	2050	2750	2050	2050	2050		2050	2050
Wasatch Plateau, UT, USA	0.36	2350	3100	3100	3050	3100		3050	3050
Deep Creek Mtns., NV and UT, USA	0.28	1550, 1850	1850, 2450	1850	1850	1850, 2450		1550, 1850	1550, 1850
Ruby Mtns., NV, USA^†	0.77	1850	2950	2200	2200	2300		1850	2200
Wasatch Range, UT, USA	0.30	1800	2250, 2750	2250	2250	2250		1800	1950
Uinta Mtns., UT, USA	0.86	1950	3050	2500	2500	2500		1950	2550
Bat Transects			*Mtn z*	*0.32*	*0.38*	*0.44*	*0.25*
SE Peru (E Slope)^†	0.09	400	750	750	750	750	750	450, 750	750
Manu National Park Region, Peru^†	0.03	350	350	650	650	650	650	350	650
New Guinea^†	0.81	100	1250	850	850	950	750	150	150
Venezuela^†	0.56	150	2150	750	750	1550	350	150	350
Sierra de Manantlan, Jalisco, Mexico	0.61	1950	450	1950	1950	450, 1950	1950	1950	1950
White and Inyo Mtns., CA and NV, USA	0.77	1750	3050	1750	1750	2750	1750	1750	1750

^† decreasing diversity

‡ low elevation plateau

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