Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology’s oldest and most universal
laws – every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is related to many
biological traits, including abundance. The relationship between abundance and body size …

… Ethan White was supported by a CAREER grant from the US National Science Foundation
(DEB 0953694). Greg Wilson was supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation. The …

Power‐law frequency distributions characterize a wide array of natural phenomena. In ecology,
biology, and many physical and social sciences, the exponents of these power laws are …

Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

Power‐law relationships are among the most well‐studied functional relationships in biology.
Recently the common practice of fitting power laws using linear regression (LR) on log‐…

Aim An understanding of the relationship between forest biomass and climate is needed to
predict the impacts of climate change on carbon stores. Biomass patterns have been …

Ecosystem properties result in part from the characteristics of individual organisms. How these
individual traits scale to impact ecosystem‐level processes is currently unclear. Because …

Species richness patterns are characterized either by overlaying species range maps or by
compiling geographically extensive survey data for multiple local communities. Although, …

The species–area relationship (SAR) plays a central role in biodiversity research, and recent
work has increased awareness of its temporal analogue, the species– time relationship (…