scholarly journals Response to Comments on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 336 (6089) ◽  
pp. 1639.6-1639
Author(s):  
Robert E. Ricklefs ◽  
Susanne S. Renner
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Forest Flora ◽  
Tropical Tree Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Reconstructions ◽  
Species Richness And Abundance ◽  
Neutral Models ◽  
Fossil Data ◽  
High Degree

The neutral models in the Technical Comments depend on the assumption of an initially homogeneous global tropical forest flora. Fossil data and phylogenetic reconstructions instead reveal a high degree of provincialism before the development of modern tropical forests with only occasional long-distance dispersal between continental regions, favoring parallel diversification of a small number of ancestral lineages that dispersed between regions at widely different times.

scholarly journals Comment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 336 (6089) ◽  
pp. 1639.5-1639 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Munoz ◽  
Pierre Couteron ◽  
Stephen P. Hubbell
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Neutral Theory ◽  
Tropical Tree ◽  
Temporal Scales ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Tropical Tree Species ◽  
Neutral Theory Of Biodiversity ◽  
Species Richness And Abundance

Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) have argued that the neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography cannot explain the correlations in family abundances and species richness found between tropical forests from distinct continents. However, we show that such patterns can arise from neutral processes of diversification, migration, and drift over large spatial and temporal scales.

scholarly journals Species–area curves, neutral models, and long-distance dispersal

Ecology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (7) ◽  
pp. 1743-1750 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Rosindell ◽  
Stephen J. Cornell
Keyword(s):  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Species Area ◽  
Neutral Models

Comment on ‘Seagrass Viviparous Propagules as a Potential Long-Distance Dispersal Mechanism’ by A. C. G. Thomson et al.

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 290-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Sinclair ◽  
Renae Hovey ◽  
John Statton ◽  
Matthew W. Fraser ◽  
Marion L. Cambridge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Dispersal Mechanism
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