Publications

McCain, C. M. and N. J. Sanders. In Press. Metabolic theory and elevational diversity of vertebrate ectotherms. Ecology.

McCain, C. M. In Press. Global analysis of reptile elevational diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

McCain, C. M. 2009. Vertebrate range sizes indicate that mountains may be 'higher' in the tropics. Ecology Letters 12:550–560. [Online; Request]

McCain, C. M. 2009. Global analysis of bird elevational diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:346–360. [Online; Request]

Gotelli, N.J., Anderson, M.J., Arita, H.T., Chao, A., Colwell, R.K. Connolly, S.R. Currie,
D.J. Dunn, R.R., Graves, G.R. Green, J.L., Grytnes, J-A., Jiang, Y.-H., Jetz, W., Lyons, S.K., McCain, C.M., Magurran, A.E., Rahbek, C., Rangel, T.F.L.V.B., Soberón, J., Webb, C.O., and M.R. Willig. 2009. Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecology Letters 12: 873–886. [Request]

Grytnes, J. A. and C. M. McCain. 2007. Elevational patterns in species richness. Pages 1–8 in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity ( S. Levin , editor), Elsevier, Inc. [Invited article] [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2007. Area and mammalian elevational diversity. Ecology 88:76–86. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2007. Could temperature and water availability drive elevational diversity? A global case study for bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:1–13. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. , R. M. Timm, and M. Weksler. 2007. Sigmodontomys aphrastus: Redescription, taxonomic comparison, and natural history. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 120:117–136. [PDF]

Dunn, R. R., C. M. McCain, and N. J. Sanders. 2007. When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid-domain effect. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:305–312. [PDF]

Mittelbach, G.G., D. Schemske, H.V. Cornell, A.P. Allen, J. Brown, M. Bush, S.P. Harrison, A. Hurlbert, N. Knowlton, H.A. Lessios, C. M. McCain, A.R. McCune, L.A. McDade, M.A. McPeek, T.J. Near, T.D. Price, R.E. Ricklefs, K. Roy, D.F. Sax, D. Schluter, J. M. Sobel, M. Turelli. 2007. Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction, and biogeography. Ecology Letters 10:315–331 . [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2006. Do elevational range size, abundance, and body size patterns mirror those documented for geographic ranges? A case study using Costa Rican rodents. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8:435–454. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2005. Elevational gradients in diversity of small mammals. Ecology 86:366–372. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2004. The mid-domain effect applied to elevational gradients: species richness of small mammals in Costa Rica. Journal of Biogeography 31:19–31. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2003. North American desert rodents: a test of the mid-domain effect in species richness. Journal of Mammalogy 84:967–980. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. 2001. First evidence of giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Honduras. Southwestern Naturalist 46:252–254. [PDF]

Submitted:

Hawkins, B.A. McCain, C.M., Davies, T.J., Ackerly, D.D., Anacker, B., Buckley, L.B., Cornell, H.V., Damschen, E.I., Gryntes, J.-V., Harrison, S.P., Kraft , N.J.B., and Stephens, P.R. Submitted. Multiple evolutionary pathways to climate-induced convergence of the global diversity gradients of birds and mammals. Ecology Letters.

Buckley, L.B., Davies, T.J., Ackerly, D.D., Kraft , N.J.B., Harrison, S.P., Anacker, B., Cornell, H.V., Damschen, E.I., Gryntes, J.-V., Hawkins, B.A. McCain, C.M., Stephens, P.R. and Wiens, J.J. Submitted. Mammalian climate-diversity gradients: An inevitable product of aggregating clades with distinct evolutionary histories? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

In Preparation:

McCain, C. M. Global meta-analysis of elevational diversity for amphibians.

McCain, C. M. Is Rapoport’s Rule pervasive on mountains?

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