Review Article

The Humpbacked Species Richness-Curve: A Contingent Rule for Community Ecology

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Unimodal functions and probability distributions. (a) Species richness of tropical mammals as a function of productivity (redrawn from Rosenzweig and Abramsky [39]). (b) Body mass distribution of the world’s mammals (redrawn from Gardezi and da Silva [13]).
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