Working Group on Neutral Models

Participants: R. Todd Jobe, Jason Fridley

Summary statement: [Coming Soon]

Some neutral model predictions - Jason Fridley

Outline of activities:

Future NEMESIS Updates

Other documents and information:

Download the latest version of NEMESIS (ver. 5 Sept 2002).
Note: At this time, NEMESIS use is restricted to members of the UNC EcoInformatics working group.

Nemesis User's Guide

Neutral Models in Ecology: Explanation or Correlation? (Power Point presentation)

The NEMESIS Architecture (Power Point presentation)

Readings:

• Whitfield, John. 2002. Neutrality versus the niche. Nature.
  417:480-481. This is a news review of the debate surrounding neutral models.
  
  
• Bell, G. 2001. Neutral Macroecology. Science. 293:2413-2418. Graham Bell lobbies in favor of neutral models under the pretense of reviewing Steve Hubble's The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography.
  
  
  • Enquist, B.J., J. Sanderson & M.D. Weiser. 2002. Modeling macroscopic patterns in ecology. Science 295:1835-1836
    
    
  • Bell, G. 2002. Response. Science 295:1836-1837.
    
    
• Bell, G. 2000. The Distribution of Abundance in Neutral Communities. American Naturalist. 155(5):607-615. Graham Bell's own neutral model.
  
  
• Hubble, S. 2001. The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. Princeton. Princenton University Press. Very dense, but each chapter has a summary of the major points. Chapters 1,6 and 9 contain the "take-home" messages of the book