Comment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality” | Zendy

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Comment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”

Author(s) -

Anping Chen,

Shaopeng Wang,

Stephen W. Pacala

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1222534

Subject(s) - abundance (ecology) , species richness , biodiversity , neutrality , ecology , neutral theory of molecular evolution , tree (set theory) , geography , biology , mathematics , philosophy , combinatorics , epistemology , biochemistry , gene

Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) found significant correlations for abundances and species diversities of families and orders of trees on different continents, which they suggested falsifies the neutral theory of biodiversity (NTB). We argue that the correlations among families and orders and the lack of correlations among genera can be explained by the NTB.

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