Class information for:
Level 1: SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION//NEUTRAL THEORY//ECOLOGICAL DRIFT

Basic class information

Class id #P Avg. number of
references
Database coverage
of references
12539 898 45.8 61%



Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Hierarchy of classes

The table includes all classes above and classes immediately below the current class.



Cluster id Level Cluster label #P
3 4 PLANT SCIENCES//AGRONOMY//FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1882812
15 3       ECOLOGY//FORESTRY//BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION 124126
661 2             ECOLOGY//SPECIES RICHNESS//MACROECOLOGY 13412
12539 1                   SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION//NEUTRAL THEORY//ECOLOGICAL DRIFT 898

Terms with highest relevance score



rank Term termType Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term
Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences
#P with
term in
class
1 SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION authKW 1860864 10% 61% 90
2 NEUTRAL THEORY authKW 885392 10% 28% 92
3 ECOLOGICAL DRIFT authKW 545053 3% 70% 23
4 SPECIES AREA RELATIONSHIP authKW 480614 9% 17% 85
5 NEUTRAL MODEL authKW 325513 3% 32% 30
6 SPECIES AREA CURVE authKW 216687 3% 23% 28
7 ENDEMICS AREA RELATIONSHIP authKW 208262 1% 88% 7
8 NEUTRAL THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY authKW 181340 1% 67% 8
9 SPECIES TIME RELATIONSHIP authKW 172129 1% 56% 9
10 ZERO SUM MULTINOMIAL authKW 170011 1% 100% 5

Web of Science journal categories



Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term
Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences
#P with
term in
class
1 Ecology 34141 69% 0% 617
2 Evolutionary Biology 3528 13% 0% 120
3 Biodiversity Conservation 1532 7% 0% 59
4 Mathematical & Computational Biology 1517 8% 0% 70
5 Biology 1399 12% 0% 105
6 Geography, Physical 423 4% 0% 35
7 Forestry 179 3% 0% 25
8 Physics, Mathematical 154 4% 0% 39
9 Plant Sciences 150 7% 0% 65
10 Limnology 58 1% 0% 10

Address terms



Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term
Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences
#P with
term in
class
1 UMR SYST ANAL BIOMETR 121434 1% 71% 5
2 COMMUNITY CONSERVAT ECOL GRP 106649 3% 11% 29
3 ENERGY OURCES GRP 56546 3% 6% 28
4 LARGE SCALE COMPUTAT SCI 51000 0% 50% 3
5 CANADA CHAIR TERR ECOSYST 45335 0% 67% 2
6 TROP FO T SCI 44452 2% 9% 15
7 ABGCITA A 34002 0% 100% 1
8 AUSTRALIAN WEED 34002 0% 100% 1
9 BARLETT 34002 0% 100% 1
10 BIOGEODYNAM BIO ERS GRP CONTINENTAL ECOL 34002 0% 100% 1

Journals



Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term
Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences
#P with
term in
class
1 ECOLOGY LETTERS 50127 6% 3% 57
2 THEORETICAL ECOLOGY 29577 2% 5% 16
3 OIKOS 15668 6% 1% 56
4 ECOLOGY 10301 6% 1% 54
5 AMERICAN NATURALIST 9409 4% 1% 39
6 ECOGRAPHY 9288 3% 1% 24
7 ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY 7597 1% 2% 11
8 GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 7246 2% 1% 18
9 JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 6046 5% 0% 44
10 JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY 4070 1% 2% 7

Author Key Words



Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term
Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences
#P with
term in
class
LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION 1860864 10% 61% 90 Search SPECIES+ABUNDANCE+DISTRIBUTION Search SPECIES+ABUNDANCE+DISTRIBUTION
2 NEUTRAL THEORY 885392 10% 28% 92 Search NEUTRAL+THEORY Search NEUTRAL+THEORY
3 ECOLOGICAL DRIFT 545053 3% 70% 23 Search ECOLOGICAL+DRIFT Search ECOLOGICAL+DRIFT
4 SPECIES AREA RELATIONSHIP 480614 9% 17% 85 Search SPECIES+AREA+RELATIONSHIP Search SPECIES+AREA+RELATIONSHIP
5 NEUTRAL MODEL 325513 3% 32% 30 Search NEUTRAL+MODEL Search NEUTRAL+MODEL
6 SPECIES AREA CURVE 216687 3% 23% 28 Search SPECIES+AREA+CURVE Search SPECIES+AREA+CURVE
7 ENDEMICS AREA RELATIONSHIP 208262 1% 88% 7 Search ENDEMICS+AREA+RELATIONSHIP Search ENDEMICS+AREA+RELATIONSHIP
8 NEUTRAL THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY 181340 1% 67% 8 Search NEUTRAL+THEORY+OF+BIODIVERSITY Search NEUTRAL+THEORY+OF+BIODIVERSITY
9 SPECIES TIME RELATIONSHIP 172129 1% 56% 9 Search SPECIES+TIME+RELATIONSHIP Search SPECIES+TIME+RELATIONSHIP
10 ZERO SUM MULTINOMIAL 170011 1% 100% 5 Search ZERO+SUM+MULTINOMIAL Search ZERO+SUM+MULTINOMIAL

Core articles

The table includes core articles in the class. The following variables is taken into account for the relevance score of an article in a cluster c:
(1) Number of references referring to publications in the class.
(2) Share of total number of active references referring to publications in the class.
(3) Age of the article. New articles get higher score than old articles.
(4) Citation rate, normalized to year.



Rank Reference # ref. in
cl.
Shr. of ref. in
cl.
Citations
1 AZAELE, S , SUWEIS, S , GRILLI, J , VOLKOV, I , BANAVAR, JR , MARITAN, A , (2016) STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: NEUTRAL THEORY AND BEYOND.REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS. VOL. 88. ISSUE 3. P. - 100 75% 1
2 ROSINDELL, J , HUBBELL, SP , ETIENNE, RS , (2011) THE UNIFIED NEUTRAL THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY AT AGE TEN.TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. VOL. 26. ISSUE 7. P. 340 -348 65 88% 137
3 MATTHEWS, TJ , WHITTAKER, RJ , (2014) NEUTRAL THEORY AND THE SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PROSPECTS FOR UNIFYING NICHE AND NEUTRAL PERSPECTIVES.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. VOL. 4. ISSUE 11. P. 2263-2277 61 94% 12
4 MCGILL, BJ , ETIENNE, RS , GRAY, JS , ALONSO, D , ANDERSON, MJ , BENECHA, HK , DORNELAS, M , ENQUIST, BJ , GREEN, JL , HE, FL , ET AL (2007) SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS: MOVING BEYOND SINGLE PREDICTION THEORIES TO INTEGRATION WITHIN AN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK.ECOLOGY LETTERS. VOL. 10. ISSUE 10. P. 995-1015 60 54% 380
5 ROSINDELL, J , HUBBELL, SP , HE, FL , HARMON, LJ , ETIENNE, RS , (2012) THE CASE FOR ECOLOGICAL NEUTRAL THEORY.TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. VOL. 27. ISSUE 4. P. 203 -208 43 83% 68
6 AL HAMMAL, O , ALONSO, D , ETIENNE, RS , CORNELL, SJ , (2015) WHEN CAN SPECIES ABUNDANCE DATA REVEAL NON-NEUTRALITY?.PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY. VOL. 11. ISSUE 3. P. - 43 90% 0
7 NOBLE, AE , FAGAN, WF , (2015) A NICHE REMEDY FOR THE DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS OF NEUTRAL THEORY.THEORETICAL ECOLOGY. VOL. 8. ISSUE 1. P. 149 -161 46 73% 3
8 MISSA, O , DYTHAM, C , MORLON, H , (2016) UNDERSTANDING HOW BIODIVERSITY UNFOLDS THROUGH TIME UNDER NEUTRAL THEORY.PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. VOL. 371. ISSUE 1691. P. - 45 64% 2
9 ZHANG, DY , ZHANG, BY , LIN, K , JIANG, XH , TAO, Y , HUBBELL, S , HE, FL , OSTLING, A , (2012) DEMOGRAPHIC TRADE-OFFS DETERMINE SPECIES ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY.JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY. VOL. 5. ISSUE 1. P. 82 -88 35 97% 5
10 CONNOLLY, SR , MACNEIL, MA , CALEY, J , KNOWLTON, N , CRIPPS, E , HISANO, M , THIBAUT, LM , BHATTACHARYA, BD , BENEDETTI-CECCHI, L , BRAINARD, RE , ET AL (2014) COMMONNESS AND RARITY IN THE MARINE BIOSPHERE.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. 111. ISSUE 23. P. 8524 -8529 30 91% 24

Classes with closest relation at Level 1



Rank Class id link
1 8774 METACOMMUNITY//BETA DIVERSITY//SPECIES SORTING
2 13112 MACROECOLOGY//ABUNDANCE OCCUPANCY RELATIONSHIP//GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE SIZE
3 19777 SAMPLE COVERAGE//SPECIES RICHNESS ESTIMATION//NUMBER OF CLASSES
4 9269 ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY//NESTEDNESS//SMALL ISLAND EFFECT
5 7177 MID DOMAIN EFFECT//RAPOPORTS RULE//DIVERSITY GRADIENTS
6 2313 JANZEN CONNELL HYPOTHESIS//JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY//TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
7 37195 ACCRETION OF THE COASTLINE//COSQUER CAVE//BLACK RIVER BASIN
8 25383 THE SHANNON ENTROPY//FUNCTIONAL EQUATION OF SUM FORM//HILLS DIVERSITY NUMBERS
9 8888 ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS//EVOLUTIONARY BRANCHING//INVASION FITNESS
10 3032 FUNCTIONAL TRAITS//ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING//FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY

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