Linking Statistical and Ecological Theory: Hubbell's Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity as a Hierarchical Dirichlet Process: This paper addresses the issue of a species occupying a specific ecological niche by introducing a new algorithmic model that overcomes shortcomings of the traditional neutral models

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 516-529

  Harris, Keith ^a   Parsons, Todd L ^b,c   Ijaz, Umer Z ^d   Lahti, Leo ^e,f   Holmes, Ian ^g   Quince, Christopher ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g University of California   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; ecological modelling; hierarchical Dirichlet process; Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity; microbial communities

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TROPICS;

DIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELLING; HIERARCHICAL DIRICHLET PROCESS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NEUTRAL THEORIES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84939449063     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2428213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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