A relationship between species richness and evenness that depends on specific relative abundance distribution.

ABSTRACT: Although many ecologists focus on the relationship between species richness (S) and evenness (E), conflicts between observation and theory are difficult to reconcile. Empirical S-E relationships were not consistent, while relationships show strong correlation between S and E. Since E essentially depended on the relative abundance distribution (RAD), the hypothesis of this paper was that the S-E relationship should be determined by RAD. Theoretical S-E relationships for various RADs have already been reported, but they were rarely assessed by the raw data. This study constructed S-E relationships for a specific RAD, which indicated that if the community had a fractal distribution of rank abundance,

SUBMITTER: Su Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6003394 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature