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Laws in ecology: diverse modes of explanation for a holistic science? [PDF]

, 2017
Ecology’s reputation as a holistic and soft science is partly due to widespread misconceptions of its nature as well as shortcomings in its methodology.
Bateson, Begon, Bentley, Berryman, Blythe, Botkin, Caswell, Chave, Chave, Clouser, Colyvan, Colyvan, Cooper, den Boer, den Boer, Dennett, Dooyeweerd, Dooyeweerd, Drakare, Feldman, Francis Gilbert, Freschet, Garten, Gause, Greenslade, Grime, Grime, Gunton, Hall, Hanski, Hanski, Harper, Harrison, Henle, Hixon, Hubbell, Keddy, Keller, Lawton, Lawton, Lessard, Levin, Levin, Levins, Lindeman, Linquist, Livio, MacArthur, Mayr, Mayr, McGill, McGill, Murray, Nicholson, Nicholson, Peters, Peters, Poulin, Rappoldt, Reich, Reichstein, Richard Gunton, Rosindell, Sadownik, Scheiner, Schoener, Smith, Southwood, Southwood, Strauss, Strauss, Tansley, Ulanowicz, Verberk, Watson, West, Whittaker, Wilkinson, Wilson, Winemiller, Wright   +80 more
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Neutral Theory and Relative Species Abundance in Ecology [PDF]

, 2003
The theory of island biogeography[1] asserts that an island or a local community approaches an equilibrium species richness as a result of the interplay between the immigration of species from the much larger metacommunity source area and local ...
Banavar, Jayanth R., Hubbell, Stephen P., Maritan, Amos, Volkov, Igor   +3 more
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Archipelagos and meta-archipelagos

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2018
The term meta-archipelago has been in use in cultural studies for some time, to refer to certain complex island areas in which the boundaries between conventionally recognised archipelagos are indistinct, although the concept also carries additional ...
Robert J. Whittaker, José M. Fernández-Palacios, Thomas J. Matthews, François Rigal, Kostas A. Triantis   +4 more
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An inordinate fondness?: the number, distributions, and origins of diatom species [PDF]

, 2013
The number of extant species of diatoms is estimated here to be at least 30,000 and probably ca. 100,000, by extrapolation from an eclectic sample of genera and species complexes.
Mann, David G, Vanormelingen, Pieter
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Toward a theory for diversity gradients: the abundance–adaptation hypothesis [PDF]

, 2017
The abundance–adaptation hypothesis argues that taxa with more individuals and faster generation times will have more evolutionary ‘experiments’ allowing expansion into, and diversification within, novel habitats.
Buzzard, V, Deng, Y, Enquist, BJ, He, Z, Kaspari, M, Michaletz, ST, Shen, L, Waide, RB, Weiser, MD, Zhou, J   +9 more
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Analytic solution of Hubbell's model of local community dynamics

, 2003
Recent theoretical approaches to community structure and dynamics reveal that many large-scale features of community structure (such as species-rank distributions and species-area relations) can be explained by a so-called neutral model.
Alonso, David, McKane, Alan, Sole, Ricard   +2 more
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Pole-to-Pole Connections : Similarities between Arctic and Antarctic Microbiomes and Their Vulnerability to Environmental Change [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgments JK acknowledges the Carl Zeiss foundation for PhD funding, the Marie-Curie COFUND-BEIPD PostDoc fellowship for PostDoc funding, FNRS travel funding and the logistical and financial support by UNIS.
Bahram, Mohammad, Bork, Peer, Camacho, Antonio, Convey, Peter, Dietrich, Daniel R., Hildebrand, Falk, Jungblut, Anne D., Kleinteich, Julia, Küpper, Frithjof C., Pearce, David A., Quesada, Antonio, Vincent, Warwick F., Voigt, Anita Y., Wood, Susanna A., Zarfl, Christiane   +14 more
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Environmental and local habitat variables as predictors of trophic interactions in subtidal rocky reefs along the SE Pacific coast

Ecography, EarlyView.
Temperature generally drives latitudinal patterns in the strength of trophic interactions, including consumption rates. However, local community and other environmental conditions might also affect consumption, disrupting latitudinal gradients, which results in complex large‐scale patterns.
Catalina A. Musrri, Alistair G. B. Poore, Oscar Pino, Nicolás Riquelme, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Fadia Tala, Martin Thiel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Snake eels (Ophichthidae) of the remote St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago (Equatorial Atlantic) : Museum records after 37 years of shelf life [PDF]

, 2019
Despite of its major zoogeographical interest, the biological diversity of central Atlantic oceanic islands are still poorly known because of its remoteness.
Luiz Jr., Omar J., McCosker, John E.
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Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems

Ecography, EarlyView.
Although anthropogenically‐induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruptions and their effects are generally not comparable to one another, nor to disturbances that are part of natural disturbance regimes.
Erica A. Newman, Mark Q. Wilber, Alexandre Génin, Oriana E. Chafe, Henry F. Houskeeper, Steven Lee, Eric L. Berlow, John Harte   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source