The coast of mainland Chile extends from 18° S to about 56° S, and is about 4200 km long.
In the north, the coast is characterized by continuous, regular, and wave-exposed shores …

Aim The pattern of increasing biological diversity from high latitudes to the equator
[latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG)] has been recognized for> 200 years. Empirical studies …

Aim We evaluated whether patterns of species diversity (α, β and γ) of rocky shore
assemblages followed latitudinal gradients (ie LDGs) along the South American coasts, and …

Current latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) meta‐analyses have failed to distinguish one of
the most widespread marine habitats, the intertidal zone, as a separate system despite it …

Whether global latitudinal diversity gradients exist in rocky intertidal α-diversity and across
functional groups remains unknown. Using literature data from 433 intertidal sites, we …

Many ecological and evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain the latitudinal
diversity gradient, ie the increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics. Among …

Aim While geographical patterns of species richness are reasonably well explored for single
well‐studied taxa, less is known about aggregate patterns of total richness for major biomes …

The formation and maintenance of biogeographic regions and the latitudinal gradient of
species richness are thought to be influenced, in part, by the spatial distribution of physical …

Extensive investigation of the close association between biological diversity and
environmental temperature has not yet yielded a generally accepted, empirically validated …

The general latitudinal trend is that species diversity declines as latitude increases [1]. This
appears to be the case for almost all terrestrial plants and animals [2, 3]. It is also usually …