Stochastic Communities —— A Mathematical Theory of Biodiversity

----- 随机种群：生物多样性的数学理论

ISBN: 9781138197022 出版年：2017 页码：208 Dewdney, A K CRC Press

Stochastic Communities presents a theory of biodiversity by analyzing the distribution of abundances among species in the context of a community. The basis of this theory is a distribution called the "J distribution." This distribution is a pure hyperbola and mathematically implied by the "stochastic species hypothesis" assigning equal probabilities of birth and death within the population of each species over varying periods of time. The J distribution in natural communities has strong empirical support resulting from a meta-study and strong theoretical support from a theorem that is mathematically implied by the stochastic species hypothesis.