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2005
Connor, E.F., Srivastava, D., Gaston, K.J., He, F.
While local processes (e.g., competition, predation, and disturbance) presumably cause species exclusion and thus limit diversity in individual communities, regional processes (e.g., historical events, immigration, and speciation) are assumed to provide a source of species to colonize and thus...
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2007
Hu, X.-S., Hubbell, S.P., He, F.
We extend the neutral theory of macroecology by deriving biodiversity models (relative species abundance and species-area relationships) in a local community-metacommunity system in which the local community is embedded within the metacommunity. We first demonstrate that the local species...
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2011
Flannigan, M.D., Krawchuk, M.A., Bowman, L.M., Moritz, M.A., Parisien, M.A., Parks, S.A.
In the boreal forest of North America, as in any fire-prone biome, three environmental factors must coincide for a wildfire to occur: an ignition source, flammable vegetation, and weather that is conducive to fire. Despite recent advances, the relative importance of these factors remains the...
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2009
Ma, K. P., Yu, M. J., Sun, I. F., Legendre, P., Mi, X. C., He, F. L., Ren, H. B.
Abstract: The classical environmental control model assumes that species distribution is determined by the spatial variation of underlying habitat conditions. This niche-based model has recently been challenged by the neutral theory of biodiversity which assumes that ecological drift is a key...