title: Comment on "Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality".
abstract: Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) found significant correlations for abundances and species diversities of families and orders of trees on different continents, which they suggested falsifies the neutral theory of biodiversity (NTB). We argue that the correlations among families and orders and the lack of correlations among genera can be explained by the NTB.
authors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. anpingc@princeton.edu
authors: Anping
authors: A
authors: Chen
authors: Shaopeng
authors: S
authors: Wang
authors: Stephen W
authors: SW
authors: Pacala
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017753:Ecosystem; D014197:Trees