Aim Energy availability is often assumed to be a primary driver of variation in biodiversity across large‐scale environmental gradients such as elevation, but support for the role of energetic constraints is far from universal. Here, we assume that these variations in energy–richness relationships might arise from the degree of match between the scale of the response of organisms to energy (response scale) and the scale of the...

Under global warming, compound hot‐dry events (CHDEs) pose increasing threats across China. This study investigates the spatiotemporal characteristics of summer CHDEs and their monthly atmospheric drivers using two independent datasets (CN05.1 and satellite‐based) during 1979–2022. A daily‐scale Compound Hot‐Dry Index (CHDI) is developed to identify co‐occurring high‐temperature and low‐precipitation extremes. Results show tha...