The neutral theory of biodiversity: do the numbers add up?

By Sean Nee. 2005

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Modes of speciation and the neutral theory of biodiversity (2007, background): “The neutral model has been criticized because it predicts species that are impossibly old (Nee 2005).”
Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond (2015, background): “Although the theory has been highly criticized by many ecologists as being unrealistic [38, 99, 108, 123, 124], it does provide very good results”
Neutral theory in macroecology and population genetics (2006, background): “While the linkage between these two bodies of theories has been recognized (Caswell 1976, Bell 2001, Hubbell 2001, Chave 2004, Etienne and Alonso 2005, Vellend and Geber 2005) and some aspects of differences are also discussed (Nee 2005), a more detailed comparison has not yet been made.”
The Ecological Niche: History and Recent Controversies (2015, background): “26 The Ecological Niche: History and Recent Controversies 574 parsimony, neutral theory is often regarded as a null hypothesis to, possibly, refute (e.g. Nee 2005 : 176; Leigh 2007 : 2082).”