Scale collapse and the emergence of the power law species-area relationship

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 883-895

  Wilber, Mark Q ^a   Kitzes, Justin ^b   Harte, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

METE; Species abundance distribution; Species level spatial abundance distribution; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; PREDICTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84936220539     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12309     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Allen, A.P. & White, E.P. (2003) Effects of range size on species-area relationships. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 5, 493-499.
2. Arrhenius, O. (1921) Distribution of the species over the area. Journal of Ecology, 9, 95-99.
3. Borda-de Água, L., Borges, P.A.V., Hubbell, S.P. & Pereira, H.M. (2011) Spatial scaling of species abundance distributions. Ecography, 35, 549-556.
4. Chave, J. (2004) Neutral theory and community ecology. Ecology Letters, 7, 241-253.
5. Chave, J., Muller-Landau, H.C. & Levin, S.A. (2002) Comparing classical community models: theoretical consequences for patterns of diversity. The American Naturalist, 159, 1-23.
6. Chisholm, R.A. & Lichstein, J.W. (2009) Linking dispersal, immigration and scale in the neutral theory of biodiversity. Ecology Letters, 12, 1385-1393.
7. Conceição, K.S., Ulrich, W., Diniz, C.A.R., Rodrigues, F.A. & Andrade, M.G.D. (2014) A generalized approach to the modeling of the species-area relationship. PLoS ONE, 9, e105132.
8. Condit, R. (2000) Spatial patterns in the distribution of tropical tree species. Science, 288, 1414-1418.
9. Conlisk, E., Bloxham, M., Conlisk, J., Enquist, B.J. & Harte, J. (2007) A new class of models of spatial distribution. Ecological Monographs, 77, 269-284.
10. Conlisk, J., Conlisk, E., Kassim, A.R., Billick, I. & Harte, J. (2012) The shape of a species' spatial abundance distribution. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21, 1167-1178.
11. Dengler, J. (2009) Which function describes the species-area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation. Journal of Biogeography, 36, 728-744.
12. Drakare, S., Lennon, J.J. & Hillebrand, H. (2006) The imprint of the geographical, evolutionary and ecological context on species-area relationships. Ecology Letters, 9, 215-227.
13. Fisher, R.A., Corbet, A.S. & Williams, C.B. (1943) The relation between then number of species and the number of individuals in a random sample of an animal population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 12, 42-58.
14. Franze, M., Schweiger, O. & Betzholtz, P. (2012) Species-area relationships are controlled by species traits. PLoS ONE, 7, e37359.
15. García Martín, H. & Goldenfeld, N. (2006) On the origin and robustness of power-law species-area relationships in ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 103, 10310-10315.
16. Green, J.L. & Ostling, A. (2003) Endemics area relationships: the influence of species dominance and spatial aggregation. Ecology, 84, 3090-3097.
17. Green, J.L. & Plotkin, J.B. (2007) A statistical theory for sampling species abundances. Ecology Letters, 10, 1037-1045.
18. Halley, J.M., Sgardeli, V. & Triantis, K.A. (2014) Extinction debt and the species-area relationship: a neutral perspective. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 113-123.
19. Harte, J. (2011) Maximum entropy and ecology: a theory of abundance, distribution, and energetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
20. Harte, J., Smith, A.B. & Storch, D. (2009) Biodiversity scales from plots to biomes with a universal species-area curve. Ecology Letters, 12, 789-797.
21. Hassell, M.P., Southwood, T.R.E. & Reader, P.M. (1987) The dynamics of the viburnum whitefly (Aleurotrachelus jelinekii): a case study of population regulation. Journal of Animal Ecology, 56, 283-300.
22. He, F. & Legendre, P. (1996) On species-area relations. The American Naturalist, 148, 719-737.
23. He, F. & Legendre, P. (2002) Species diversity patterns derived from species area models. Ecology, 83, 1185-1198.
24. Hubbell, S.P. (2001) The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
25. Janzen, D.H. (1978) Seeding patterns of tropical trees. Tropical trees as living systems (ed. by P.B. Tomlinson and M.H. Zimmermann ), pp. 83-129. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
26. Kitzes, J. & Harte, J. (2014) Beyond the species-area relationship: improving macroecological extinction estimates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 1-8.
27. Kretzschmar, M. & Alder, F.R. (1993) Aggregated distributions in models for patchy populations. Theoretical Population Biology, 43, 1-30.
28. Krishnamani, R., Kumar, A. & Harte, J. (2004) Estimating species richness at large spatial scales using data from small discrete plots. Ecography, 5, 637-642.
29. Lomolino, M.V. (2000) Ecology's most general, yet protean pattern: the species-area relationship. Journal of Biogeography, 27, 17-26.
30. McGlinn, D.J., Xiao, X. & White, E.P. (2013) An empirical evaluation of four variants of a universal species-area relationship. PeerJ, 1, e212.
31. Marquet, P.A., Allen, A.P., Brown, J.H., Dunne, J.A., Enquist, B.J., Gillooly, J.F., Gowaty, P.A., Green, J.L., Harte, J., Hubbell, S.P., O'Dwyer, J., Okie, J.G., Ostling, A., Ritchie, M., Storch, D. & West, G.B. (2014) On theory in ecology. BioScience, 64, 701-710.
32. Ney-Nifle, M. & Mangel, M. (2000) Habitat loss and changes in the species-area relationship. Conservation Biology, 14, 893-898.
33. Plotkin, J.B. & Muller-Landau, H.C. (2002) Sampling the species composition of a landscape. Ecology, 83, 3344-3356.
34. Plotkin, J.B., Potts, M.D., Leslie, N., Manokaran, N., Lafrankie, J. & Ashton, P.S. (2000) Species-area curves, spatial aggregation, and habitat specialization in tropical forests. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 207, 81-99.
35. Powell, K.I., Chase, J.M. & Knight, T.M. (2013) Invasive plants have scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships. Science, 339, 316-318.
36. Preston, F. (1962) The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity. Ecology, 43, 185-215.
37. Rosenzweig, M.L. (1995) Species diversity in space and time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
38. Rosindell, J. & Cornell, S.J. (2007) Species-area relationships from a spatially explicit neutral model in an infinite landscape. Ecology Letters, 10, 586-595.
39. Sampford, M.R. (1955) The truncated negative binomial distribution. Biometrika, 42, 58-69.
40. Stiles, A. & Scheiner, S.M. (2007) Evaluation of species-area functions using Sonoran Desert plant data: not all species-area curves are power functions. Oikos, 116, 1930-1940.
41. Storch, D., Keil, P. & Jetz, W. (2012) Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature, 488, 78-81.
42. Tjoerve, E. (2003) Shapes and functions of species-area curves: a review of possible models. Journal of Biogeography, 30, 827-835.
43. Tjoerve, E. (2009) Shapes and functions of species-area curves (II): a review of new models and parameterizations. Journal of Biogeography, 36, 1435-1445.
44. Tjoerve, E., Kunin, W.E., Polce, C. & Calf Tjoerve, K.M. (2008) Species-area relationship: separating the effects of species abundance and spatial distribution. Journal of Ecology, 96, 1141-1151.
45. Ulrich, W., Ollik, M. & Ugland, K.I. (2010) A meta-analysis of species abundance distributions. Oikos, 119, 1149-1155.
46. Volkov, I., Banavar, J.R., Hubbell, S.P. & Maritan, A. (2007) Patterns of relative species abundance in rainforests and coral reefs. Nature, 450, 45-49.
47. White, E.P., Thibault, K.M. & Xiao, X. (2012) Characterizing species-abundance distributions across taxa and ecosystems using a simple maxi mum entropy model. Ecology, 93, 1772-1778.
48. World Wildlife Fund (2014) World Wildlife Fund: living planet report. Avaialable at: http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/
49. Zillio, T. & He, F. (2010a) Inferring species abundance distribution across spatial scales. Oikos, 119, 71-80.
50. Zillio, T. & He, F. (2010b) Modeling spatial aggregation of finite populations. Ecology, 91, 3698-3706.