Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography

Hey Everyone,

This week I will be presenting a quick introduction to the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, and how it applies to some of the ideas I have had for PhD research. I've included a couple links to papers that provide a summary of the Neutral Theory.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00965.x

Hubbell, S.P. 2005. Neutral theory in community ecology and the hypothesis of functional equivalence. Functional Ecology 19: 166-172 (This is actually part of several articles on neutral theory)

http://weblinks3.epnet.com/citation.asp?tb=1&_ua=bo+B%5F+shn+1+db+afhjnh+bt+TD++%22BIO%22+C5B9&_ug=sid+108545E4%2D8C29%2D4699%2DB476%2D61B1AA3D0923%40sessionmgr2+dbs+afh+cp+1+2199&_us=hd+False+fcl+Aut+sl+%2D1+frn+1+sm+KS+mdbs+afh+dstb+KS+or+Date+sel+False+ri+KAAACB2D00066187+215A&_uh=btn+N+6C9C&_uso=st%5B0+%2DJN++%22Bioscience%22++and++DT++20030201+tg%5B0+%2D+db%5B0+%2Dafh+hd+False+op%5B0+%2D+mdb%5B0+%2Dimh+D178&cf=1&fn=1&rn=3

Norris, S. 2003. Neutral theory: A New, Unified Model for Ecology. BioScience 53: 124-129 (The scan quality on this article is very poor- I recommend reading the html full text instead of the pdf)