Concepts

The positive relationship between species richness and the surveyed area, described by the power-law S=cA^z where c is the intercept and z measures the rate of community turnover

Changes in network composition between treatments, partitioned into species turnover versus interaction rewiring components

Theory that predicts patterns of distribution, abundance, and energetics using instantaneous values of community state variables including total area, total abundance, total species richness, and tota...

Theory providing mass-metabolism scaling rules that relate metabolic rate to organism mass through allometric relationships

Distribution of metabolic rates over individuals in a community, obtained by summing over abundance

Species best suited for the environment that make up most of the vegetation in early successional stages