Comment on "From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity"

Shipley et al. (Reports, 3 November 2006, p. 812) developed a quantitative method for predicting the relative abundance of species from measured traits. We show that the method can have high explanatory power even when all trait and abundance data are randomly and independently generated, because of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2007-06, Vol.316 (5830), p.1425; author reply 1425-1425c; 1425b-1425b
Hauptverfasser:	Roxburgh, Stephen H, Mokany, Karel
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biodiversity Ecology - methods Mathematics Models, Biological Models, Statistical Monte Carlo Method Plant Physiological Phenomena Plants Population Density Statistics as Topic
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