The case for ecological neutral theory
The case for ecological neutral theory
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DOI：
10.1016/j.tree.2012.01.004
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
16.8
通讯作者：
Etienne, Rampal S.
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作者：
Rosindell, James;Hubbell, Stephen P.;Etienne, Rampal S.
近年来，生态中性理论引起了人们的强烈关注。在这里，我们回顾这些观点，并剥离一些不幸的语义问题，揭示三个主要的潜在问题。其中只有一个涉及到中性理论和生态漂移的重要性，而其他涉及模式和过程之间的联系，简单性和复杂性之间的权衡建模，以及随机性和生态漂移的作用。我们解释了如何中性理论不能同时用作零假设和近似。然而，我们也表明如何中性理论总是有一个有价值的使用，这两个角色之一，即使真实的世界是不中立的。
Ecological neutral theory has elicited strong opinions in recent years. Here, we review these opinions and strip away some unfortunate problems with semantics to reveal three major underlying questions. Only one of these relates to neutral theory and the importance of ecological drift, whereas the others involve the link between pattern and process, the tradeoff between simplicity and complexity in modeling, and the role of stochasticity and drift in ecology. We explain how neutral theory cannot be simultaneously used both as a null hypothesis and as an,approximation. However, we also show how neutral theory always has a valuable use in one of these two roles even though the real world is not neutral.