Sampling species abundance distributions: Resolving the veil-line debate

被引：17
|
作者：
Chisholm, Ryan A. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[2] Univ Melbourne, Sch Bot, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
来源：
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY | 2007年 / 247卷 / 04期
关键词：
species abundance distribution; FW Preston; AK dewdney; log-normal; veil line;
D O I：
10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.04.006
中图分类号：
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Preston's classic work on the theory of species abundance distributions (SADs) in ecology has been challenged by Dewdney. Dewdney contends that Preston's veil-line concept, relating to the shape of sample SADs, is flawed. Here, I show that Preston's and Dewdney's theories can be reconciled by considering the differing mathematical properties of the sampling process on logarithmic (Preston) versus linear (Dewdney) abundance scales. I also derive several related results and show, importantly, that one cannot reject the log-normal distribution as a plausible SAD based only on sampling arguments, as Dewdney and others have done. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码：600 / 607
页数：8
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [41] Species traits shape the relationship between local and regional species abundance distributions
    de Miranda, Murilo Dantas
    Borda-de-Agua, Luis
    Pereira, Henrique Miguel
    Merckx, Thomas
    ECOSPHERE, 2019, 10 (05):
  • [42] Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species
    Wiens, John J.
    Hutter, Carl R.
    Mulcahy, Daniel G.
    Noonan, Brice P.
    Townsend, Ted M.
    Sites, Jack W., Jr.
    Reeder, Tod W.
    BIOLOGY LETTERS, 2012, 8 (06) : 1043 - 1046
  • [43] Environmental correlates of species rank abundance distributions in global drylands
    Ulrich, Werner
    Soliveres, Santiago
    Thomas, Andrew D.
    Dougill, Andrew J.
    Maestre, Fernando T.
    PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS, 2016, 20 : 56 - 64
  • [44] Species abundance distributions as a proxy for the niche-neutrality continuum
    Wang, Xianzhi
    Ellwood, M. D. Farnon
    Ai, Dexiecuo
    Zhang, Renyi
    Wang, Gang
    JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY, 2018, 11 (03) : 445 - 452
  • [45] Limits to the estimation of species richness: The use of relative abundance distributions
    Ulrich, W
    Ollik, M
    DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, 2005, 11 (03) : 265 - 273
  • [46] Frequent and occasional species and the shape of relative-abundance distributions
    Ulrich, W
    Ollik, M
    DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, 2004, 10 (04) : 263 - 269
  • [47] Species-abundance distributions under colored environmental noise
    Fung, Tak
    O'Dwyer, James P.
    Chisholm, Ryan A.
    JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY, 2017, 74 (1-2) : 289 - 311
  • [48] Hierarchical analysis of species distributions and abundance across environmental gradients
    Diez, Jeffrey M.
    Pulliam, H. Ronald
    ECOLOGY, 2007, 88 (12) : 3144 - 3152
  • [49] Species abundance distributions reveal environmental heterogeneity in modified landscapes
    Dornelas, Maria
    Moonen, Anna Camilla
    Magurran, Anne E.
    Barberi, Paolo
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 2009, 46 (03) : 666 - 672
  • [50] Multiple peaks of species abundance distributions induced by sparse interactions
    Obuchi, Tomoyuki
    Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
    Tokita, Kei
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2016, 94 (02)
12345