Empirical biodiversity – forest structure relationships (BSRs) underlie the use of forest structure as a remotely sensible proxy of biodiversity. However, little is known about how BSRs generalize to continental scales or how climate interacts with structure to drive local patterns in plant diversity. Resolving these research gaps in macrosystems ecology will strengthen our understanding of the biogeography of plant diversity, with implications for global-scale biodiversity mapping.

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气候在美国调节植物生物多样性与森林结构之间的关系

经验生物多样性 - 森林结构关系 (BSR) 是使用森林结构作为生物多样性的遥感代理的基础。然而，人们对 BSR 如何推广到大陆尺度或气候如何与结构相互作用以驱动植物多样性的局部模式知之甚少。解决宏观系统生态学中的这些研究空白将加强我们对植物多样性生物地理学的理解，对全球范围的生物多样性绘图具有影响。