Publications

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. In press. Multiple evolutionary pathways to climate-induced convergence of the global diversity gradients of birds and mammals. Journal of Biogeography. [Request]

McCain, C. M. and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate. Ecology Letters 14:1236-1245. [Request]

Cadena, C.D., Kozak, K.H., Gómez, J.P., Parra, J.L. McCain, C.M., Bowie, R.C.K., Carnaval, A.C., Moritz, C., Rahbek, C., Roberts, T., Sanders, N., Schneider, C., VanDerWal, J., Zamudio, K., and Graham, C.H. 2011. Latitude, elevational climatic zonation, and speciation in New World vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0720.
[Request]

Fierer, N., McCain, C. M., Meir, P., Zimmerman, M., Rapp, J. M., Silman, M. R., and Knight, R. 2011. Microbial elevational diversity does not follow the biogeographical trends of plants and animals. Ecology 92:797–804. [Request]

McCain, C. M. 2010. Global analysis of reptile elevational diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19:541–553. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. and N. J. Sanders. 2010. Metabolic theory and elevational diversity of vertebrate ectotherms. Ecology 91:601-609. [PDF]

McCain, C. M. and J. A. Grytnes. 2010. Elevational gradients in species richness.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [PDF]

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. 2010. Mammalian climate-diversity gradients: An inevitable product of aggregating clades with distinct evolutionary histories? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 277:2131–2138. [PDF]

Smith, F.A., Boyer, A.G., Brown, J.H., Costa, D.P., Dayan, T., Ernest, S.K.M., Evans,
A.R., Fortelius, M., Gittleman, J.L., Hamilton, M.J., Harding, L.E., Lintulaakso, K.,
Lyons, S.K., McCain, C.M., Okie, J.G., Saarinen, J.J., Sibly, R.M., Stephens, P.R.,
Theodor, J., and M.D. Uhen. 2010. The evolution of maximum body size in terrestrial mammals. Science 330:1216–1219. [PDF]

Wiens, J.J, Ackerly, D.D., Allen, A.P., Anacker, B.L., Buckley, L.B., Cornell, H.V., Damschen, E.I. Davies, T.J., Grytnes, J.-A., Harrison, S.P., Hawkins, B.A., Holt, R.D., McCain, C.M. & Stephens, P.R. 2010. Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology. Ecology Letters 13:1310–1324. [PDF]

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

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

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. [PDF]

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:

McCain, C. M. and K. Bracy Knight. In press (minor revision). Is Rapoport’s Rule pervasive on mountains?

In Preparation:

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

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