Class information for:
Level 1: SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION//BETA DIVERSITY//NEUTRAL THEORY

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
5098 1606 49.0 65%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 2)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
317 17555 SPECIES RICHNESS//GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY//MACROECOLOGY

Terms with highest relevance score


Rank Term Type of term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION Author keyword 72 69% 4% 62
2 BETA DIVERSITY Author keyword 47 22% 12% 188
3 NEUTRAL THEORY Author keyword 38 32% 6% 97
4 METACOMMUNITY Author keyword 37 32% 6% 97
5 ECOLOGICAL DRIFT Author keyword 34 79% 1% 22
6 BIOTIC DIFFERENTIATION Author keyword 17 100% 0% 8
7 SPECIES AREA RELATIONSHIP Author keyword 16 20% 5% 75
8 NEUTRAL MODEL Author keyword 16 38% 2% 33
9 SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS Author keyword 14 53% 1% 19
10 SPECIES SORTING Author keyword 14 38% 2% 29

Web of Science journal categories

Author Key Words


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION 72 69% 4% 62 Search SPECIES+ABUNDANCE+DISTRIBUTION Search SPECIES+ABUNDANCE+DISTRIBUTION
2 BETA DIVERSITY 47 22% 12% 188 Search BETA+DIVERSITY Search BETA+DIVERSITY
3 NEUTRAL THEORY 38 32% 6% 97 Search NEUTRAL+THEORY Search NEUTRAL+THEORY
4 METACOMMUNITY 37 32% 6% 97 Search METACOMMUNITY Search METACOMMUNITY
5 ECOLOGICAL DRIFT 34 79% 1% 22 Search ECOLOGICAL+DRIFT Search ECOLOGICAL+DRIFT
6 BIOTIC DIFFERENTIATION 17 100% 0% 8 Search BIOTIC+DIFFERENTIATION Search BIOTIC+DIFFERENTIATION
7 SPECIES AREA RELATIONSHIP 16 20% 5% 75 Search SPECIES+AREA+RELATIONSHIP Search SPECIES+AREA+RELATIONSHIP
8 NEUTRAL MODEL 16 38% 2% 33 Search NEUTRAL+MODEL Search NEUTRAL+MODEL
9 SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS 14 53% 1% 19 Search SPECIES+ABUNDANCE+DISTRIBUTIONS Search SPECIES+ABUNDANCE+DISTRIBUTIONS
10 SPECIES SORTING 14 38% 2% 29 Search SPECIES+SORTING Search SPECIES+SORTING

Key Words Plus


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 BETA DIVERSITY 81 25% 18% 286
2 NEUTRAL THEORY 51 32% 8% 134
3 RELATIVE SPECIES ABUNDANCE 40 79% 2% 26
4 ZERO SUM ASSUMPTION 38 89% 1% 17
5 GAMMA DIVERSITY 28 42% 3% 50
6 DISTANCE DECAY 24 30% 4% 67
7 BIODIVERSITY THEORY 23 86% 1% 12
8 SPATIAL TURNOVER 22 55% 2% 28
9 CONSISTENT TERMINOLOGY 21 71% 1% 17
10 INDEPENDENT ALPHA 21 75% 1% 15

Journals

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active references % act. ref.
to same field
Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects 2015 4 194 41%
Reconceptualising the beta diversity-environmental heterogeneity relationship in running water systems 2015 3 61 52%
The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten 2011 93 74 92%
The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness 2012 51 19 79%
Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework 2007 290 112 57%
Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory 2011 112 75 47%
Statistical methods for temporal and space-time analysis of community composition data 2014 4 17 88%
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity 2010 230 107 34%
Scale-dependent effect sizes of ecological drivers on biodiversity: why standardised sampling is not enough 2013 22 48 50%
Which function describes the species-area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation 2009 98 69 54%

Address terms


Rank Address term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 UMR SYST ANAL BIOMETR 6 71% 0.3% 5
2 PORTUGUESE PLATFORM ENHANCING ECOL SUSTAINA 4 47% 0.4% 7
3 SYSU ALBERTA JOINT BIO ERS CONSERVAT 4 46% 0.4% 6
4 COMMUNITY CONSERVAT ECOL GRP 4 12% 1.9% 30
5 CBMA MOL ENVIRONM 3 57% 0.2% 4
6 CANADA CHAIR TERR ECOSYST 2 67% 0.1% 2
7 ECOL GRP HAS 2 67% 0.1% 2
8 CONSERVAT BIOGEOG MACROECOL PROGRAMME 2 33% 0.3% 5
9 ECOSYST CHANGE UNIT 2 21% 0.5% 8
10 TROP FO T SCI 2 11% 1.0% 16

Related classes at same level (level 1)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000202022 MID DOMAIN EFFECT//RAPOPORTS RULE//DIVERSITY GRADIENTS
2 0.0000193661 SAMPLE COVERAGE//NUMBER OF CLASSES//PSELAPHODES
3 0.0000183710 ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY//SMALL ISLAND EFFECT//NESTEDNESS
4 0.0000168270 MACROECOLOGY//ENERGETIC EQUIVALENCE RULE//ABUNDANCE OCCUPANCY RELATIONSHIPS
5 0.0000149099 PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY//COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS//QUADRATIC ENTROPY
6 0.0000109565 INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS//DISTURBANCE ASPECTS//MATH ECOL
7 0.0000091639 VARZEA//MONODOMINANCE//TREE ALPHA DIVERSITY
8 0.0000084439 ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING//COMPLEMENTARITY EFFECT//JENA EXPERIMENT
9 0.0000080009 JANZEN CONNELL HYPOTHESIS//K FUNCTION//MARK CORRELATION FUNCTION
10 0.0000073266 ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS//EVOLUTIONARY BRANCHING//CONTINUOUSLY STABLE STRATEGY