Open AccessROTIFERS AND HUBBELL'S UNIFIED NEUTRAL THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
Author(s) -
BERES KARL A.,
WALLACE ROBERT L.,
SEGERS HENDRIK H.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
natural resource modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1939-7445
pISSN - 0890-8575
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2005.tb00163.x
Subject(s) - biodiversity , biogeography , neutral theory of molecular evolution , ecology , simple (philosophy) , biology , evolutionary biology , epistemology , philosophy , biochemistry , gene
. This paper reviews several neutral models as possible mechanisms for simulating and explaining so‐called “hollow curve distributions.” The models include simple random assignment, MacArthur's broken stick, Preston's lognor‐mal (but as simulated by Sugihara), Fisher's logseries, and Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeog‐raphy. Each model is fitted to data describing the distribution of genera over families in the phylum Rotifera.