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Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons

Author(s) -

DinizFilho José Alexandre F.,

Meiri Shai,

Hortal Joaquin,

Santos Ana M. C.,

Raia Pasquale

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

ecology letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.852

H-Index - 265

eISSN - 1461-0248

pISSN - 1461-023X

DOI - 10.1111/ele.13878

Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , dwarfing , ecology , null model , econometrics , product (mathematics) , statistical physics , computer science , biology , mathematical economics , mathematics , physics , philosophy , botany , rootstock , epistemology , geometry

Biddick & Burns (2021) proposed a null/neutral model that reproduces the island rule as a product of random drift. We agree that it is unnecessary to assume adaptive processes driving island dwarfing or gigantism, but several flaws make their approach unrealistic and thus unsuitable as a stochastic model for evolutionary size changes.

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