Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond

A neutral theory with environmental stochasticity explains static and dynamic properties of ecological communities

(2015) Michael Kalyuzhny et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenies support out-of-equilibrium models of biodiversity

(2015) Marc Manceau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Unifying ecology and macroevolution with individual-based theory

(2015) James Rosindell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Neutral dynamics with environmental noise: Age-size statistics and species lifetimes

(2015) David Kessler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Generalized model of island biodiversity

(2015) David A. Kessler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

(2015) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Backbones of evolutionary history test biodiversity theory for microbes

(2015) James P. O’Dwyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tara Oceans studies plankton at planetary scale

(2015) P. Bork et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting the stability of large structured food webs

(2015) Stefano Allesina et al.   Nature Communications

The Impact of Environmental Fluctuations on Evolutionary Fitness Functions

(2015) Anna Melbinger et al.   Scientific Reports

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

(2015) H. ter Steege et al.   Science Advances

Niche versus Neutrality: A Dynamical Analysis

(2014) Michael Kalyuzhny et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Metapopulation persistence and species spread in river networks

(2014) Lorenzo Mari et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A mean field model for competition: from neutral ecology to the Red Queen

(2014) James P. O'Dwyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

(2014) Ryan A. Chisholm et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Erratum: First-passage and escape problems in the Feller process [Phys. Rev. E86, 041116 (2012)]

(2014) Jaume Masoliver et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Early Warning Signs in Social-Ecological Networks

(2014) Samir Suweis et al.   PLoS One

The transition between the niche and neutral regimes in ecology

(2014) C. K. Fisher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A niche remedy for the dynamical problems of neutral theory

(2014) Andrew E. Noble et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Species ages in neutral biodiversity models

(2014) Ryan A. Chisholm et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Towards a unified descriptive theory for spatial ecology: predicting biodiversity patterns across spatial scales

(2014) Sandro Azaele et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Repeated Parallel Evolution Reveals Limiting Similarity in Subterranean Diving Beetles

(2013) Remi Vergnon et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Complex Interaction of Dendritic Connectivity and Hierarchical Patch Size on Biodiversity in River-Like Landscapes

(2013) Francesco Carrara et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The effect of quenched disorder in neutral theories

(2013) Claudio Borile et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks

(2013) Samir Suweis et al.   NATURE

Interpretation and predictions of the Emergent neutrality model: a reply to Barabás et al.

(2013) Remi Vergnon et al.   OIKOS

Emergent neutrality or hidden niches?

(2013) György Barabás et al.   OIKOS

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

Absence of detailed balance in ecology

(2012) Jacopo Grilli et al.   EPL

An exactly solvable coarse-grained model for species diversity

(2012) Samir Suweis et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

On species persistence-time distributions

(2012) S. Suweis et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Spatial aggregation and the species–area relationship across scales

(2012) Jacopo Grilli et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Publisher's Note: First-passage and escape problems in the Feller process [Phys. Rev. E86, 041116 (2012)]

(2012) Jaume Masoliver et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

First-passage and escape problems in the Feller process

(2012) Jaume Masoliver et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Spontaneously Broken Neutral Symmetry in an Ecological System

(2012) C. Borile et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

What Ecological Factors Shape Species-Area Curves in Neutral Models?

(2012) Massimo Cencini et al.   PLoS One

Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

(2012) F. Carrara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantification of the relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring gastrointestinal microbiomes

(2012) P. Jeraldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality

(2012) R. E. Ricklefs et al.   SCIENCE

Anticipating Critical Transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   SCIENCE

Stochastic formulation of ecological models and their applications

(2012) Andrew J. Black et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The case for ecological neutral theory

(2012) James Rosindell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Emergent neutrality leads to multimodal species abundance distributions

(2012) Remi Vergnon et al.   Nature Communications

NEUTRAL BIODIVERSITY THEORY CAN EXPLAIN THE IMBALANCE OF PHYLOGENETIC TREES BUT NOT THE TEMPO OF THEIR DIVERSIFICATION

(2011) T. Jonathan Davies et al.   EVOLUTION

Negative density dependence can offset the effect of species competitive asymmetry: A niche-based mechanism for neutral-like patterns

(2011) Xiaoguang Du et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Species–area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss

(2011) Fangliang He et al.   NATURE

Multivariate Moran Process with Lotka-Volterra Phenomenology

(2011) Andrew E. Noble et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The Spatial Limitations of Current Neutral Models of Biodiversity

(2011) Rampal S. Etienne et al.   PLoS One

Quasi-Neutral Theory of Epidemic Outbreaks

(2011) Oscar A. Pinto et al.   PLoS One

Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity

(2011) E. Bertuzzo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neutral theory as a predictor of avifaunal extinctions after habitat loss

(2011) J. M. Halley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Time-dependent solutions of the spatially implicit neutral model of biodiversity

(2011) Ryan A. Chisholm   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten

(2011) James Rosindell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How restructuring river connectivity changes freshwater fish biodiversity and biogeography

(2011) Heather J. Lynch et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Protracted speciation revitalizes the neutral theory of biodiversity

(2010) James Rosindell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory

(2010) Drew W. Purves et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Applications of the principle of maximum entropy: from physics to ecology

(2010) Jayanth R Banavar et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Predictions of Taylor's power law, density dependence and pink noise from a neutrally modeled time series

(2010) Petr Keil et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A sampling theory for asymmetric communities

(2010) Andrew E. Noble et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of dispersal in explicitly spatial metacommunities

(2010) Rachata Muneepeerakul et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A mathematical synthesis of niche and neutral theories in community ecology

(2010) Bart Haegeman et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A neutral-niche theory of nestedness in mutualistic networks

(2010) Abhay Krishna et al.   OIKOS

A meta-analysis of species-abundance distributions

(2010) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Self-consistent approach for neutral community models with speciation

(2010) Bart Haegeman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Neutral Models with Generalised Speciation

(2009) Bart Haegeman et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

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

(2009) James Rosindell et al.   ECOLOGY

Field theory for biogeography: a spatially explicit model for predicting patterns of biodiversity

(2009) James P. O'Dwyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Speciation-rate dependence in species–area relationships

(2009) Simone Pigolotti et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Inferring plant ecosystem organization from species occurrences

(2009) S. Azaele et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity

(2009) Ugo Bastolla et al.   NATURE

Ecological science and tomorrow's world

(2009) R. M. May   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Robust ecological pattern formation induced by demographic noise

(2009) Thomas Butler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Predicting spatial similarity of freshwater fish biodiversity

(2009) S. Azaele et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring species interactions in tropical forests

(2009) I. Volkov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A coalescence approach to spatial neutral ecology

(2008) James Rosindell et al.   Ecological Informatics

MAXIMUM ENTROPY AND THE STATE-VARIABLE APPROACH TO MACROECOLOGY

(2008) J. Harte et al.   ECOLOGY

A general framework for the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities

(2008) Hélène Morlon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Relaxing the zero-sum assumption in neutral biodiversity theory

(2008) Bart Haegeman et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Dynamics of neutral biodiversity

(2008) Dimitri Vanpeteghem et al.   MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

Neutral metacommunity models predict fish diversity patterns in Mississippi–Missouri basin

(2008) Rachata Muneepeerakul et al.   NATURE

Incipient criticality in ecological communities

(2008) T. Zillio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ECOLOGY: Biodiversity in a Warmer World

(2008) J.-C. Svenning et al.   SCIENCE

A neutral model of edge effects

(2008) Petro Babak et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Beyond neutral science

(2008) James S. Clark   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Species abundance dynamics under neutral assumptions: a Bayesian approach to the controversy

(2007) Crispin M. Mutshinda et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY