The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography

By D. P. Vázquez, S. McMahon, Norris Z. Muth, Michael D. Collins. 2002

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

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Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations (2010, background): “…finding is that diversification models with strikingly different ecological assumptions, even models involving no ecological differences among species at all, may nevertheless produce very similar patterns of diversification (e.g. Mooers & Heard, 1997; Hubbell, 2001; McPeek, 2008; Rabosky, 2009a).”
Reconciliation ecology and the future of species diversity (2003, background): “Thus SPARs emerge from di C erent-size samples within the same of this paper (Wissel & Maier, 1992; Durrett & Levin, 1996; Harte et al ., 1999; Hubbell, 2001).”
Community assembly and invasion: An experimental test of neutral versus niche processes (2003, background): “2, 3, and 6) were called into question by a neutral theory of community assembly (8).”
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds (2020, background): “Neutral theories assume that all individuals are ecologically equivalent with the same demographic rates [8], and dispersal limitation and stochasticity are the key processes that drive the community assembly [9].”
Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species (2007, positive): “Under neutral community assembly, alpha diversity would be governed by metacommunity diversity and speciation–extinction at macroecological scales (4, 5).”
ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation (2012, background): “In the Moran model, the number of species we follow is n s and is held constant through time by replenishing instanta-neously every species becoming extinct (Hubbell 2001; Durrett 2008).”
Extinction Rates for Fluctuation-Induced Metastabilities: A Real-Space WKB Approach (2006, background): “(10) Here, as we already saw for the near-threshold case, the Pn’s are smooth and allow for a Fokker-Planck treatment.”
Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity (2016, background): “on Earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biol 9(8):e1001127.”
Effects of landscape configuration and composition on phylogenetic diversity of trees in a highly fragmented tropical forest (2017, background): “However, recent work in the Brazilian Atlantic forest (Santos et al. 2010) and Mexican dry forest (Benitez-Malvido et al. 2014) found no impact of edge effects on the phylogenetic structure of trees, suggesting that they were predominantly assembled by stochastic processes (Hubbell 2001).”
Plant species richness and community productivity: why the mechanism that promotes coexistence matters (2002, background): “Local coexistence can also be maintained by continuous immigration from an external source (MacArthur & Wilson 1967; Shmida & Ellner 1984; Loreau & Mouquet 1999; Hubbell 2001).”