The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity–diversity relationship

Ecology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 920-937

  Storch, David ^a,b   Bohdalková, Eliška ^a,b   Okie, Jordan ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; biodiversity patterns; climate; diversity equilibria; environmental productivity; extinction; latitudinal diversity gradient; speciation; species energy relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; EXTINCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85045732252     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12941     Document Type: Review

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