Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond
By Sandro Azaele, Samir Suweis, Jacopo Grilli, I. Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan. 2015
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It is of societal importance to advance the understanding of emerging patterns of biodiversity from biological and ecological systems. The neutral theory offers a statistical-mechanical framework that relates key biological properties at the individual scale with macroecological properties at the community scale. This article surveys the quantitative aspects of neutral theory and its extensions for physicists who are interested in what important problems remain unresolved for studying ecological systems.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Citations in the corpus
- Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems (2017, background): “Neutral 24 theories play a key role in population genetics (Kimura, 1984), population ecology (Azaele et al., 2016; Hubbell, 2001), epidemics (Pinto and Munoz, 2011), etc.”