Université Montpellier 2 and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR-AMAP, TA A-51/PS2, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
Science. 2012 Jun 29;336(6089):1639; author reply 1639. doi: 10.1126/science.1222718.
Ricklefs and Renner (Reports, 27 January 2012, p. 464) have argued that the neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography cannot explain the correlations in family abundances and species richness found between tropical forests from distinct continents. However, we show that such patterns can arise from neutral processes of diversification, migration, and drift over large spatial and temporal scales.
里克莱夫斯和雷纳(Reports,2012 年 1 月 27 日,第 464 页)认为,生物多样性和生物地理学的中性理论无法解释不同大陆的热带森林中发现的科属丰度与物种丰富度之间的相关性。然而,我们表明,这种模式可以由多样化、迁移和漂移的中性过程在大的时空尺度上产生。