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DOI	10.1111/ele.13788
	A unified framework for species spatial patterns: Linking the occupancy area curve, Taylor's Law, the neighborhood density function and two-plot species turnover
	Kitzes J.; Brush M.; Walters K.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1461023X
英文摘要	The description of spatial patterns in species distributions is central to research throughout ecology. In this manuscript, we demonstrate that five of the most widely used species-level spatial patterns are not only related, but can in fact be quantitatively derived from each other under minimal assumptions: the occupancy area curve, Taylor's Law, the neighborhood density function, a two-plot variant of Taylor's Law and two-plot single-species turnover. We present an overarching mathematical framework and derivations for several theoretical example cases, along with a simulation study and empirical analysis that applies the framework to data from the Barro Colorado Island tropical forest plot. We discuss how knowledge of this mathematical relationship can support the testing of ecological theory, suggest efficient field sampling schemes, highlight the relative importance of plot area and abundance in driving turnover patterns and lay the groundwork for future unified theories of community-level spatial metrics and multi-patch spatial patterns. © 2021 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
关键词	commonality distance decay macroecology pair correlation point pattern point process Ripley's K theory
语种	英语
来源期刊	Ecology Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204420
作者单位	Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kitzes J.,Brush M.,Walters K.. A unified framework for species spatial patterns: Linking the occupancy area curve, Taylor's Law, the neighborhood density function and two-plot species turnover[J],2021.
APA	Kitzes J.,Brush M.,&Walters K..(2021).A unified framework for species spatial patterns: Linking the occupancy area curve, Taylor's Law, the neighborhood density function and two-plot species turnover.Ecology Letters.
MLA	Kitzes J.,et al."A unified framework for species spatial patterns: Linking the occupancy area curve, Taylor's Law, the neighborhood density function and two-plot species turnover".Ecology Letters (2021).