Biodiversity of Tropical Forests
A. Tovo, S. Suweis, M. Formentin, M. Favretti, Jayanth R. Banavar, S. Azaele, A. Maritan
This paper introduces a framework to estimate biodiversity in tropical forests, showing that previous methods overestimate species counts and revealing hyper-rarity as a buffer against mass extinctions.
bioRxiv · Dec 15, 2016 · PreprintEcology