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The Assembly of Species Communities: Chance or Competition?
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We challenge Diamond's (1975) idea that island species distributions are determined predominantly by competitions canonized by his "assembly rules." We show that every assembly rule is either tautological, trivial, or a pattern expected were species distributed at random. In order to demonstrate that competition is responsible for the joint distributions of species, one would have to falsify a null hypothesis stating that the distributions are generated by the species randomly and individually colonizing an archipelago.
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- Authors
- Connor, E. F., & Simberloff, D.
- Venue
- Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1979-12
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1132-1140
- ISSN
- 0012-9658 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-9170
- OpenAlex
- W2033980098
- Cited by
- 1,190
- References
- 0
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- 30.94
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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