title: Spatial scaling in model plant communities.
abstract: We present an analytically tractable variant of the voter model that provides a quantitatively accurate description of Beta diversity (two-point correlation function) in two tropical forests. The model exhibits novel scaling behavior that leads to links between ecological measures such as relative species abundance and the species-area relationship.
authors.affiliation: International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), INFM, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: Tommaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zillio
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Volkov
authors.forename: Jayanth R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Banavar
authors.forename: Stephen P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Hubbell
authors.forename: Amos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maritan
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D008954:Models, Biological; D014197:Trees; D014329:Tropical Climate