Do abundance distributions and species aggregation correctly predict macroecological biodiversity patterns in tropical forests?

摘要

AimIt has been recently suggested that different unified theories of biodiversity and biogeography' can be characterized by three common minimal sufficient rules': (1) species abundance distributions follow a hollow curve, (2) species show intraspecific aggregation, and (3) species are independently placed with respect to other species. Here, we translate these qualitative rules into a quantitative framework and assess if these minimal rules are indeed sufficient to predict multiple macroecological biodiversity patterns simultaneously.