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q-bio.PE2021★ 4 cited
Understanding Species Abundance Distributions in Complex Ecosystems of Interacting Species
Jim Wu, Pankaj Mehta, David Schwab
Niche and neutral theory are two prevailing, yet much debated, ideas in ecology proposed to explain the patterns of biodiversity. Whereas niche theory emphasizes selective differen…
q-bio.PE2013★ 46 cited
Quantifying the role of population subdivision in evolution on rugged fitness landscapes
Anne-Florence Bitbol, David J. Schwab
Natural selection drives populations towards higher fitness, but crossing fitness valleys or plateaus may facilitate progress up a rugged fitness landscape involving epistasis. We…
q-bio.PE2008★ 19 cited
How many species have mass M?
Aaron Clauset, David J. Schwab, Sidney Redner
Within large taxonomic assemblages, the number of species with adult body mass M is characterized by a broad but asymmetric distribution, with the largest mass being orders of magn…