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 …

I review the mathematical and biological aspects of Hubbell's (2001) neutral theory of
species abundance for ecological communities, and clarify its historical connections with …

Quantifying the abundance of species is essential to ecology, evolution, and conservation.
The distribution of species abundances is fundamental to numerous longstanding questions …

A key feature of life's diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.
Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare …

In this paper we extend the classical susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model from
a deterministic framework to a stochastic one and formulate it as a stochastic differential …

The absolute diversity of prokaryotes is widely held to be unknown and unknowable at any
scale in any environment. However, it is not necessary to count every species in a …

Understanding diversity and assembly patterns of microbial communities in activated sludge
(AS) is pivotal for addressing fundamental ecological questions and wastewater treatment …

Extreme arid regions in the worlds' major deserts are typified by quartz pavement terrain.
Cryptic hypolithic communities colonize the ventral surface of quartz rocks and this habitat is …

2.1 Background Exhaustive empirical surveys have shown that, almost without exception,
macroparasites (parasitic helminths and arthropods) are aggregated across their host …

The open oceans comprise most of the biosphere, yet patterns and trends of species
diversity there are enigmatic. Here, we derive worldwide patterns of tuna and billfish …