Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: McGill's theory of biodiversity is based upon three axioms: individuals of the same species cluster together, many rare species co-exist with a few common ones and individuals of different species grow independently of each other. Over the past decade, classical point pattern analyses have been employed to verify these axioms based on the false assumption of stationarity. In this paper, we use inhomogeneous versions of the classical summary statistics for spatial point patterns to assess the validity of McGill's first and third axioms for data obtained from a 50 hectare plot on Barro Colorado Island.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: de Jongh, M. C., van Lieshout, M. N. M.
Institutions: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, University of Twente
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Mathematics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1198279745, LTREB: Long-Term Studies of Seedling and Small Sapling Community Dynamics in a Neotropical Forest, G3772627221, G6242140455, The Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography: "New Theoretical Approaches", The Dynamics of a Neotropical Forest: the 2005 Recensus and the Annual Seedling and Small Sapling Census, Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Seed and Pollen Dispersal in Tropical Trees
OpenAlex ID: W3043368439