Effects of Productivity and Disturbance on Species Richness: A Neutral Model
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Productivity and disturbance are major determinants of species diversity, and results from theoretical models predict that species richness should peak at intermediate levels of both factors. Such "unimodal" responses have been documented in many field and laboratory studies and have usually been attributed to differences among species in competitive ability and/or trade-offs between competitive ability and tolerance to disturbance. Here we show that most documented patterns of disturbance-richness and productivity-richness relationships, as well as the observed interactions between the two factors, can be explained by a simple neutral model where all species are ecologically identical and lack trade-offs in species characteristics. This finding suggests that current neutral theories can be extended to explain patterns of species responses to productivity and disturbance.
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Explaining Species Diversity By Linking Local and Large Scale Processes
Cadotte, M. W. (2006)
- Authors
- Kadmon, R., & Benjamini, Y.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Kadmon, Ronen
- Benjamini, Yuval
- Venue
- The American Naturalist
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2006-06
- Volume
- 167
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 939-946
- ISSN
- 0003-0147 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5323
- OpenAlex
- W2173518826
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 4.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The American Naturalist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Keywords
- species richness, productivity, disturbance, neutral model, unimodal response, species diversity, neutral theory, competitive ability, community assembly
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Computer Simulation, Models, Biological, Biomass, Biodiversity
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