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SUBMITTER: Connolly SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4060690 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Connolly Sean R SR MacNeil M Aaron MA Caley M Julian MJ Knowlton Nancy N Cripps Ed E Hisano Mizue M Thibaut Loïc M LM Bhattacharya Bhaskar D BD Benedetti-Cecchi Lisandro L Brainard Russell E RE Brandt Angelika A Bulleri Fabio F Ellingsen Kari E KE Kaiser Stefanie S Kröncke Ingrid I Linse Katrin K Maggi Elena E O'Hara Timothy D TD Plaisance Laetitia L Poore Gary C B GC Sarkar Santosh K SK Satpathy Kamala K KK Schückel Ulrike U Williams Alan A Wilson Robin S RS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140527 23
Explaining patterns of commonness and rarity is fundamental for understanding and managing biodiversity. Consequently, a key test of biodiversity theory has been how well ecological models reproduce empirical distributions of species abundances. However, ecological models with very different assumptions can predict similar species abundance distributions, whereas models with similar assumptions may generate very different predictions. This complicates inferring processes driving community struct ...[more]