Unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography

By Egbert G. Leigh Jr., J. Rosindell, Rampal S. Etienne. Scholarpedia, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology

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The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years? (2013, methodology): “To facilitate the mathematical analysis of this model, Hubbell (2001) assumed that all individuals have the same prospects of reproduction and or death.”
Niche assembly of epiphytic bryophyte communities in the Guianas: a regional approach (2009, background): “If dispersal assembly rules prevailed, the similarity between communities would be more strongly related to distance, through neutral processes (Hubbell, 2001), than to zonation within the tree.”
Average functional distinctness as a measure of the composition of assemblages (2008, background): “It may well be that, for some analyses, equal probabilities of occurrence represent a sensible hypothesis (Hubbell, 2001), in which case it is valid to assume that the index is independent of sampling effort.”
Which function describes the species–area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation (2009, background): “, 1999; Ovaskainen & Hanski, 2003; Šizling & Storch, 2004; Williamson & Gaston, 2005; Pueyo, 2006) and neutral models (Bell, 2001; Hubbell, 2001; Rosindell & Cornell, 2007) predict differently shaped SARs, and thus the actual shapes of SARs provide a means for testing these theories.”
Past tree range dynamics in the Iberian Peninsula inferred through phylogeography and palaeodistribution modelling: A review (2010, background): “On the other hand, stochastic processes such as historical contingencies and metacommunity assembly dynamics (Hubbell, 2001; Holyoak et al., 2005) seem to play a more relevant role at regional or more local scales (see Carrión et al., this issue).”
Environmental filtering affects soil fungal community composition more than dispersal limitation at regional scales (2014, background): “Chemical analyses of airborne particles indicate that The processes controlling community assembly are a central focus of community ecology (Clements, 1912; Gleason, 1939; Hubbell, 2001; Leibold et al., 2004).”
Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria (2018, background): “and dispersal events that result in patterns of species composition indistinguishable from those produced by random chance alone [6, 7].”
Updates on mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity (2018, background): “…for coexistence because it increases the value of ρ. Conversely, if there is high overlap in resource use, as is often postulated for plants (Hubbell, 2001), but low overlap in natural enemy attack, the presence of natural enemies greatly increases the opportunity for coexistence because…”
Neotropical Plant Evolution: Assembling the Big Picture (2013, neutral): “Hubbell SP. 2001.”
Latitudinal phytoplankton distribution and the neutral theory of biodiversity (2013, background): “The neutral model of biodiversity developed by Hubbell (1997, 2001) was inspired by MacArthur & Wilson’s (1967) theory of island biogeography.”
Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons (2019, methodology): “More importantly, the explained variation of NCM tended to remain relatively large and constant along taxonomic ranks from genus to kingdom taxonomic resolutions (all of the R2 over than 88.8% with mean value 92.7%), indicating that taxa within the same phylogenetical lineages generally show similar”
Assembly mechanisms determining high species turnover in aquatic communities over regional and continental scales (2016, background): “Until recently, some authors argued that stochastic (or ‘neutral’) processes are sufficient to explain the observed patterns of betadiversity, even under the simplifying assumption of no ecological differentiation among species (Hubbell 2001).”
Dissecting a biodiversity hotspot: The importance of environmentally marginal habitats in the Atlantic Forest Domain of South America (2017, background): “Regarding the large fraction of unexplained variation, it may suggest that ecological drift (cf. Hubbell, 2001) is driving stochastic rearrangements of species distribution ranges through time.”
The Interaction Between Propagule Pressure, Habitat Suitability and Density‐Dependent Reproduction in Species Invasion (2012, background): “…populations are limited primarily by (H1a) seed supply, so that recruitment is determined largely by stochastic processes (Eriksson and Ehrlén 1992, Hubbell 2001) or (H1b) habitat resistance to establishment, so that recruitment success is dominated by establishment success, which depends on…”
Habitat suitability modelling and niche theory (2008, background): “Second, neutralist theories argue that limited dispersal and stochastic extinction/ speciation events are the driving factors, even if species have identical niches (MacArthur & Wilson 1967; Hubbell 2001).”