To design robust protected area networks, accurately measure species losses, or
understand the processes that maintain species diversity, conservation science must …

A decade has now passed since Hubbell published The Unified Neutral Theory of
Biodiversity and Biogeography. Neutral theory highlights the importance of dispersal …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology's oldest and most universal
laws–every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

The species–area relationship (SAR) has been used to predict the numbers of species
going extinct due to habitat loss, but other researchers have maintained that SAR s …

This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools
required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of …

Ecological neutral theory has elicited strong opinions in recent years. Here, we review these
opinions and strip away some unfortunate problems with semantics to reveal three major …

Aim The aims of this study are to resolve terminological confusion around different types of
species–area relationships (SARs) and their delimitation from species sampling …

The simplest theories often have much merit and many limitations, and, in this vein, the
value of neutral theory (NT) of biodiversity has been the subject of much debate over the …

Species–area relationships (SARs) characterize the spatial distribution of species diversity
in community ecology, but the biological mechanisms underlying the SARs have not been …