John Alroy1
1School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University. Email: john.alroy@mq.edu.au
Running title: Three models of ecological community assembly
Keywords: ecological abundance, exponential-to-e distribution, log series, population dynamics, scaled odds distribution, species richness
Type of article: Letter
Number of words: 143 in the abstract, 4874 in the main text.
References: 60
Figures: 4
Tables: none
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Statement of authorship: JA designed the study, created the methods, collected the data, analysed the data, and wrote the manuscript.
Data accessibility statement: The data have been archived on Dryad (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.brv15dvdc). The source code for the analyses is on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/10156259). The R package is also available on GitHub (https://github.com/johnalroy/richness/tree/main/R).
Correspondence: John Alroy, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia. Phone +61 (4) 66 819 806. E-mail john.alroy@mq.edu.au