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 …

The duality between “niche” and “biotope” proposed by G. Evelyn Hutchinson provides a
powerful way to conceptualize and analyze biogeographical distributions in relation to …

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

The pervasive idea that species should be most abundant in the centre of their geographic
range or centre of their climatic niche is a key assumption in many existing ecological …

The assumption that species are most abundant in the center of their range and decline in
abundance toward the range edges has a long history in the ecological literature. This …

Hydrodynamics drives both stochastic and deterministic community assembly in aquatic
habitats, by translocating microbes across geographic barriers and generating changes in …

Aim The aims of this study are to resolve terminological confusion around different types of
species–area relationships (SARs) and their delimitation from species sampling …

Species spatial turnover, or β‐diversity, induces a decay of community similarity with
geographic distance known as the distance–decay relationship. Although this relationship is …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 627–642 Abstract A unified theory in science is a theory that
shows a common underlying set of rules that regulate processes previously thought to be …

The simplest theories often have much merit and many limitations, and, in this vein, the
value of neutral theory (NT) of biodiversity has been the subject of much debate over the …