Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory
Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory is a scholarly work by David A. Vasseur and Walter Jetz, published in 2019 in ''The American Naturalist''. The main subjects of the publication include biodiversity, gamma diversity, biological dispersal, insular biogeography, abundance, introduced species, beta diversity, biology, Relative abundance distribution, extinction, metacommunity, alpha diversity, neutral theory of molecular evolution, conservation biology, macroecology, ecology, Nestedness, biogeography, Null model, and species diversity. The authors first derive theoretical predictions for the expected beta diversity patterns under the classic MacArthur and Wilson framework, where all species have equal colonization and extinction rates.