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
Text boxes: none
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Data accessibility statement: The data have been archived on Dryad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