Reconciling niche and neutrality: the continuum hypothesis.

By Dominique Gravel, Charles D. Canham, Marilou Beaudet, Christian Messier. Ecology Letters, 2006

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Does size matter for dispersal distance (2007, background): “1a,b), then dispersal mode may help resolve the contrast (or continuum; Gravel et al. , 2006) between neutral and niche theories of macroecology (Holyoak et al. , 2006) and identify the relevant spatial scales.”
Prospects for fen meadow restoration on severely degraded fens (2010, background): “species establishment rates and consequently on immigration rates, and on community composition (Tilman, 1997; Foster, 2001; Zobel, 2001; Davis et al., 2005; Von Holle and Simberloff, 2005; Gravel et al., 2006).”
Global patterns in the shape of species geographical ranges reveal range determinants (2012, background): “It could be argued that restricted-range species may be responding to climate gradients at smaller scales (Hawkins & Diniz-Filho, 2006; Ohlemu¨ller et al. , 2008), such as those associated with elevational gradients, but there is no particular justiﬁcation why mesoscale climatic gradients would…”
Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (2016, background): “Both approaches, niche and neutrality, can be regarded as the opposing ends of a continuum from competitive to stochastic exclusion, with neutrality becoming more pronounced as species richness, niche overlap and dispersal capabilities increase (Gravel et al. 2006; Valladares et al. 2015), for examp”
Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China. (2009, background): “…among sampling units between environmental and spatial components according to this framework provides a useful ground for testing and separating niche from neutral mechanisms in biodiversity studies (Harms et al. 2001, Tilman 2004, Karst et al. 2005, Gravel et al. 2006, Laliberté et al. 2008).”
Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond (2015, background): “[59] D.”
Assembly mechanisms determining high species turnover in aquatic communities over regional and continental scales (2016, background): “For example, Gravel et al. (2006) suggest that niche and neutrality form a continuum established by the balance of competitive and stochastic exclusion.”
Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species‐rich assemblage (2014, background): “Furthermore, immigration may counteract competitive exclusion in interconnected metacommunities, reducing the degree of niche organization required for diversity maintenance (Gravel et al. 2006).”
Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology? (2017, background): “Despite this extreme assumption of the ecological equivalence of all individuals, neutral theory successfully predicted, even better than niche theory, some fundamental ecological patterns of numerous communities, such as species abundance distributions and species-area relationships (11, 29, 74, 92”