Response to Comments on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”
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Comment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”
Ricklefs and Renner (1) published a highly stimulating paper that compared orders, families, and genera of trees present in tropical Asia, Africa, and America. Both total abundance and number of species in orders and families were found to be significantly correlated among continents, but neither correlation was significant for genera (1). Ricklefs and Renner (1) concluded that the intercontine...
متن کاملComment on "Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality".
Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) showed correlations of species richness and individual abundance within families across continents and claimed that neutral theory predicts no such correlation. However, they did not substantiate this claim quantitatively with a neutral model. Here, we show that neutral theory can be consistent with these correlations and, consequently, tha...
متن کاملComment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”
Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) suggested that strong correlations in the diversity of shared families between isolated tree assemblages reject neutrality. Simulations of a neutral model indicate, however, that isolated assemblages under various configurations of random speciation and extinction do sustain strong correlations in the diversity of shared families. Thus, rep...
متن کاملComment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”
Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) have argued that the neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography cannot explain the correlations in family abundances and species richness found between tropical forests from distinct continents. However, we show that such patterns can arise from neutral processes of diversification, migration, and drift over large spatial and temporal ...
متن کاملGlobal correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.
Patterns of species richness and relative abundance at some scales cannot be distinguished from predictions of null models, including zero-sum neutral models of population change and random speciation-extinction models of evolutionary diversification. Both models predict that species richness or population abundance produced by independent iterations of the same processes in different regions s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1222685