The phrase "across latitudinal" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that occurs or is distributed over different latitudes, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The climate varies significantly across latitudinal regions, affecting local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "across latitude" or "over different latitudes".
For a few VL taxa (microarthropods, nematodes, algae, mosses and lichens), species diversity has been intensively assessed in highly localized habitats, but little is known of how community assemblages vary across broader spatial scales, or across latitudinal and environmental gradients.
Pearson correlation analyses were done between the estimators of species richness per site and latitude in order to detect possible patterns of distribution across latitudinal gradients.
From the point of view of conservation, stratifying a network of reserves across latitudinal gradients make good sense as a strategy for conserving diversity, because the latitude-diversity relationship holds under a variety of climates.
Moreover, Cheviron and Brumfield [ 33] found differences in mtDNA sequences across altitudinal transects but not across latitudinal control transects in Peruvian populations of Z. capensis.
Second, although D. antarctica is clearly an effective long-distance disperser, there may be differences in reproductive viability of rafts across latitudinal gradients.
Long-term sampling should also monitor changes in the distribution of hosts and vector populations and their distribution across latitudinal, elevational, and environmental gradients.
Environmental changes that would normally be observed across a latitudinal gradient stretching thousands of kilometres can be observed across a few hundred meters of elevational change in the Sky Islands [ 26, 27, 36].
James, L. C., Marzloff, M. P., Barrett, N., Friedman, A. & Johnson, C. R. Changes in deep reef benthic community composition across a latitudinal and environmental gradient in temperate Eastern Australia.
In particular, the relationship between their diversity and latitude remains unclear, due to a lack of coordinated surveys across broad latitudinal ranges.
If climate change and current land use practices continue to affect both the vertical and horizontal distribution major ecotypes, we could expect an overall restructure of the landscape across the latitudinal, longitudinal, and altitudinal dimensions in the short term.
Based on seafloor imagery obtained from an autonomous underwater vehicle8, we related change in community composition on deep reefs (30 90 m) across a latitudinal gradient (25 45° S) in southeastern Australia to high-resolution environmental and oceanographic data, and predicted future changes using downscaled climate change projections for the 2060s10,11,12.
