Does Mother Nature really prefer rare species or are log‐left‐skewed SADs a sampling artefact?

By Brian J. McGill. 2003

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Brian J. McGill
2. Nicholas Gotelli
3. Kevin J. Gaston
4. S. Kidwell
5. A. Tomašovỳch
6. M. Williamson
7. Angela Potochnik
8. J. Nekola

In Ecology

1. A. Tomašovỳch
2. Brian J. McGill
3. S. Kidwell
4. Nicholas Gotelli
5. Kevin J. Gaston
6. M. Williamson
7. J. Nekola
8. Richard S. Condit

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Brian J. McGill
2. Nicholas Gotelli
3. Kevin J. Gaston
4. S. Kidwell
5. A. Tomašovỳch
6. M. Williamson
7. J. Nekola
8. Richard S. Condit

Citations in the corpus

• The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization* (2012, background): “In this conceptualization, the regional pool is either an explicit assemblage of many communities known as a metacommunity (Leibold et al. 2004) or an abstract generalization of a much larger area that is structured by different processes (Hubbell 2001; McGill 2003).”
• Mechanisms in macroecology: AWOL or purloined letter? Towards a pragmatic view of mechanism (2010, background): “When random variables are multiplied together, causing their log transforms to be added, a normal distribution on a log-transformed scale (the lognormal distribution) is generated (MacArthur 1960, May 1975, Limpert et al. 2001, McGill 2003a).”
• Null Versus Neutral Models: What's The Difference? (2006, methodology): “Random sampling from a regional source pool has been used as a null model in ecology (Graves and Gotelli 1983, Cornell and Lawton 1992, McGill 2003c, Dolman and Blackburn 2004) and paleoecology (Holterhoff 1996), but ecology would probably benefit from further research into the application of this…”
• The impact of neutrality, niche differentiation and species input on diversity and abundance distributions (2007, background): “In particular the long tail of rare species so often observed (McGill 2003, Condit et al. 2005) is predicted quite closely by a neutral model.”
• Predicting the effects of increasing temporal scale on species composition, diversity, and rank-abundance distributions (2010, methodology): “This approach is comparable to simulation of timeaveraging by McGill (2003).”
• The lognormal distribution is not an appropriate null hypothesis for the species–abundance distribution (2005, methodology): “…(1948), and then to use a χ 2 test on the deviation from expectation of the observed values for the bins (the classes into which species are grouped, e.g. McGill 2003a; Volkov 412 M. Williamson & K. J. Gaston © 2005 British Ecological Society, Journal of Animal Ecology , 74 , 409–422 et al .”
• Species rarity: definition, causes, and classification (2007, background): “As we reviewed earlier, relatively uncommon species dominate most species assemblages-whether one samples pristine or perturbed systems ( McGill 2003 ).”
• Implications of Time-Averaged Death Assemblages for Ecology and Conservation Biology (2013, background): “…of numerical or proportional abundance against, on the x-axis, a species list, ranked in order of descending abundance (Whittaker plot) species remain the same over time but that rare species replace each other at local scales (Hanski 1982, McGill 2003, Magurran 2007, Magurran & Henderson 2010).”