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Teoría neutral: la estabilidad de la biodiversidad forestal
Igor Volkov1, Jayanth R Banavar, Amos Maritan
1Department of Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Nature
|February 20, 2004
Resumen
La teoría neutral unificada ofrece una hipótesis nula para la asamblea de la comunidad. Este estudio refuta las afirmaciones de que los datos fósiles invalidan la teoría, mostrando el análisis mal entendido de la deriva neutral.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Ecología Ecología Ecología.
- La biogeografía es la biogeografía.
- Biología evolutiva Biología evolutiva.
Sus antecedentes:
- La teoría neutral unificada de la biodiversidad y la biogeografía (Grooming) sirve como una hipótesis nula dinámica para la asamblea de la comunidad ecológica.
- Explica los patrones en la abundancia de especies, las relaciones entre especies y áreas y la filogenia considerando la especiación, la extinción, la dispersión y la deriva ecológica.
- Clark y McLachlan (2007) impugnaron la teoría, citando la estabilidad en los registros de polen de los bosques canadienses del Holoceno como evidencia contra la deriva neutral.
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