The Abundant-Centre Is Not All That Abundant: A Comment to Osorio-Olvera et al. 2020

Author(s)

Tad Dallas, University of South CarolinaFollow
Samuel Pironon
Luca Santini

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Species abundance is expected to decrease from the centre towards the edge of their ecological niches (abundant niche-centre hypothesis). Recently, Osorio-Olvera et al. (2020) reported strong support for the abundant niche-centre relationship in North American birds. We demonstrate here that methodological decisions strongly affected perceived support. Avoiding these issues casts doubt on conclusions by Osorio-Olvera et al. and the putative support for the abundant nichecentre hypothesis in North American birds.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.27.968586

Publication Info

Preprint version bioRxiv The Preprint Server for Biology, 2020.

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APA Citation

Dallas, T., Pironon, S., & Santini, L. (2020). The Abundant-Centre Is Not All That Abundant: A Comment to Osorio-Olvera et al. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.27.968586