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q-bio.PE2005★ 75 cited
Spatial Scaling in Model Plant Communities
Tommaso Zillio, Igor Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar +2
We present an analytically tractable variant of the voter model that provides a quantitatively accurate description of beta-diversity (two-point correlation function) in two tropic…
q-bio.PE2005★ 867 cited
Neutral Theory and Relative Species Abundance in Ecology
Igor Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar, Stephen P. Hubbell +1
The theory of island biogeography[1] asserts that an island or a local community approaches an equilibrium species richness as a result of the interplay between the immigration of…