Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology's oldest and most universal
laws–every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

The species abundance distribution (SAD) is an important concept in ecology, and much
work has focused on the SAD in a theoretical context. However, less focus has been placed …

Marine conservation increasingly focuses on describing and maintaining ecosystem
functioning. However, it is difficult to find suitable measures for whole-ecosystem functioning …

Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients suffer from chronic bacterial lung infections that lead to death in
the majority of cases. The need to maintain lung function in these patients means that …

It has been known for 50 years that the time period over which data are collected affects the
shape of empirical species abundance distributions. However, despite a recent resurgence …

Traditionally, microbial surveys investigating the effect of chronic anthropogenic pressure
such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminations consider just the alpha and beta …

Macro-ecological theories relating species richness, abundance, range size, biological traits
and environmental tolerance have rarely been tested in marine soft-sediments, despite the …

A species abundance distribution (SAD) characterises patterns in the commonness and
rarity of all species within an ecological community. As such, the SAD provides the …

Spatial variation in species composition is one of the most fundamental and conspicuous
features of the natural world. Measures of compositional differentiation and similarity …

One of the longest running debates in ecology is whether chance or determinism structures
biotic communities, and this question is often studied by looking for the presence or absence …