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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Baldridge E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5183127 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PeerJ 20161222
A number of different models have been proposed as descriptions of the species-abundance distribution (SAD). Most evaluations of these models use only one or two models, focus on only a single ecosystem or taxonomic group, or fail to use appropriate statistical methods. We use likelihood and AIC to compare the fit of four of the most widely used models to data on over 16,000 communities from a diverse array of taxonomic groups and ecosystems. Across all datasets combined the log-series, Poisson ...[more]