Spatial scaling in model plant communities.
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.
Zillio
Tommaso
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International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), INFM, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy.
Volkov
Igor
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Banavar
Jayanth R
JR
Hubbell
Stephen P
SP
Maritan
Amos
A
D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D008954:Models, Biological; D014197:Trees; D014329:Tropical Climate