Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions

By Anne E. Magurran, P. A. Henderson. Nature, 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Undersampling and the measurement of beta diversity (2013, methodology): “This data set is exceptionally suitably for our analysis because failure to separate vagrant and resident communities (Holloway 1977, 1982, 1996; see also Magurran & Henderson 2003) can lead to erroneous assessments of diversity (Wolda &Marek 1994).”
The rare bacterial biosphere. (2012, background): “Particularly intriguing are the questions of how and why so many species become rare, considering the evolutionary disadvantages of having small population sizes (Rabinowitz 1981, Magurran & Henderson 2003).”
Diversity : between neutrality and structure (2006, background): “Besides the origin of the lognormal-like SAD, the main related issues discussed in the literature (Magurran and Henderson 2003) have been its seeming left skew in Preston’s representation, and the observations by Preston (1962) himself on the ‘‘canonical’’ lognormal (Sugihara 1980).”
A review on the plant microbiome: Ecology, functions, and emerging trends in microbial application (2019, background): “By contrast, some microbial taxa that occur in low abundance in a reduced number of sites are called satellite taxa [47,48].”
Species diversity and structure of phytophagous beetle assemblages along a latitudinal gradient: predicting the potential impacts of climate change (2004, positive): “Rare species make up a substantial component of all arthropod communities, but their role and importance in structuring broad community patterns among regions is not well understood (Price et al., 1995; Novotny & Basset, 2000; Magurran & Henderson, 2003).”
Reconciling niche and neutrality: the continuum hypothesis. (2006, methodology): “Tests of the neutral model initially focused on simply comparing empirical patterns of species distribution to the patterns predicted by the model (Bell 2001; Hubbell 2001; Condit et al. 2002; McGill 2003a; Volkov et al. 2003).”
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment (2004, background): “A few organism types within a much larger pool of rare types is typical of lognormal abundance distributions in other natural communitie”
Neutral theory and community ecology (2004, methodology): “In the 1940s, statistical models were proposed to describe patterns of species abundance (Fisher et al. 1943; Preston 1948), and they still motivate a great deal of interest today ( Magurran & Henderson 2003; McGill 2003).”
The lognormal distribution is not an appropriate null hypothesis for the species–abundance distribution (2005, methodology): “McGill (2003b) thinks this is a sampling effect, Magurran & Henderson (2003) think it comes from including casuals, and Gregory (2000) says ‘driven by a very small number of vagrant breeders’.”