Suggested Readings

Species-area relationships - Palmer's Bibliography

Neutral models.

• 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 1,5 and 9 contain
  the "take-home" messages of the book.
  

Distance Decay of similarity.

Nekola, J. C., and P. S. White. 1999. The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology. Journal of Biogeography 26: 867-878.

Hubble, S. 2001. The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. Princeton. Princenton University Press. Chapter 7

Daymet data applications

• Waring, R.H., N.C. Coops J.L. Ohmann and D. Starr. 2002. Predicting woody plant richness from seasonal ratios of photosynthesis. Ecology 83: 2964-2970.
  
  
• Waring, R.H., N.C. Coops and W. Fan. 2002. Predicting woody plant diversity across the contiguous USA from seasonal patterns in photosynthesis derived with a satellite-driven model, 3-PGS. Proposal to NASA.