The results suggest, first, that we should expect the distribution of body sizes within lineages to be multimodal and second, that a coherent theory of community body size distributions will need to ...

For a theory that dealt with biodiversity, Hubbell’s neutral theory was sparse. It ignored variations in life spans, nutritional quirks, and other details that distinguish one species from another.

In a recent study published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, a team of scientists from the United States (U.S.) presented a framework for combining biologging data and ecological theory to ...