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Widespread bursts of diversification in microbial phylogenies
Alice Doucet-Beaupré, James P. O'Dwyer
Until recently, much of the microbial world was hidden from view. A global research effort has changed this, unveiling and quantifying microbial diversity across enormous range of…
Cross-scale ecological theory sheds light on the maintenance of biodiversity
James P. O'Dwyer, Stephen J. Cornell
One of the first successes of neutral ecology was to predict realistically-broad distributions of rare and abundant species. However, it has remained an outstanding theoretical cha…
The impact of species-neutral stage structure on macroecological patterns
Rafael D'Andrea, James P. O'Dwyer
Despite its radical assumption of ecological equivalence between species, neutral biodiversity theory can often provide good fits to species abundance distributions observed in nat…
Reinterpreting Maximum Entropy in Ecology: a null hypothesis constrained by ecological mechanism
James P. O'Dwyer, Andrew Rominger, Xiao Xiao
Simplified mechanistic models in ecology have been criticized for the fact that a good fit to data does not imply the mechanism is true: pattern does not equal process. In parallel…
Inferring processes of cultural transmission: the critical role of rare variants in distinguishing neutrality from novelty biases
James P. O'Dwyer, Anne Kandler
Neutral evolution assumes that there are no selective forces distinguishing different variants in a population. Despite this striking assumption, many recent studies have sought to…