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Neutral theory tested by birds

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A continental-scale analysis of habitat and bird distribution in South America provides the latest challenge for neutral theory — a controversial idea in ecology about what determines the make-up of communities.

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Figure 1: Summary of Graves and Rahbek's results2.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544-1003, New Jersey, USA

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Ostling, A. Neutral theory tested by birds. Nature 436, 635–636 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436635a

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