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SUBMITTER: Morlon H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2613237 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morlon Hélène H Chuyong George G Condit Richard R Hubbell Stephen S Kenfack David D Thomas Duncan D Valencia Renato R Green Jessica L JL
Ecology letters 20080520 9
Species spatial turnover, or beta-diversity, induces a decay of community similarity with geographic distance known as the distance-decay relationship. Although this relationship is central to biodiversity and biogeography, its theoretical underpinnings remain poorly understood. Here, we develop a general framework to describe how the distance-decay relationship is influenced by population aggregation and the landscape-scale species-abundance distribution. We utilize this general framework and d ...[more]