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Christy M. McCain and Nathan J. Sanders. 2010. Metabolic theory and elevational diversity of vertebrate ectotherms. Ecology 91:601–609.

Appendix C (TABLE C1). Multiple regression models and AIC values for the relationship of elevational diversity to abundance and the MTE temperature.

Data set

Multiple regression models

r2

AICc

Iberian1

ln abundance

0.9391

0.1022

Snakes

MTE temperature

0.7416

23.2263

 

ln abundance, MTE temp.

0.9503

0.493

       

Iberian1

ln abundance

0.9694

-1.8883

Lizards

MTE temperature

0.8066

29.4629

 

ln abundance, MTE temp.

0.9729

-0.4622

       

Iberian1

ln abundance

0.8761

3.8361

Salamanders

MTE temperature

0.5741

19.8893

 

ln abundance, MTE temp.

0.8806

7.6923

       

Iberian1

ln abundance

0.9197

-9.8611

Frogs

MTE temperature

0.7208

7.5846

 

ln abundance, MTE temp.

0.9199

-5.8573

       

Paneveggio2

ln abundance

0.6545

-6.1871

Reptiles

MTE temperature

0.2227

9.2206

ln abundance, MTE temp.

0.731

-7.683

1 Pleguezuelos and Villafranca 1997
2 Caldonazzi et al. 1998

LITERATURE CITED

Pleguezuelos, J. M., and C. Villafranca. 1997. Distribución altitudinal de la herpetofauna Ibérica. Pages 321–341 in J. M. Pleguezuelos and J. P. Martinez-Rica, editors. Distribución y biogeografía de los anfibios y reptiles en Espana y Portugal. Monografías de Herpetología 3. Universidad de Granada-Asociación Herpetológica Española, Granada.

Caldonazzi, M., S. Zanghellini, and F. Barbieri. 1998. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Paneveggio: Pale di S. Martino Natural Park and surrounding (Province of Trento, Central-eastern Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali Acta Biologica 75:57–85.


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