Correction to One of MacArthur's Species-Abundance Formulas
- 4 February 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 151 (3710) , 592
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.151.3710.592
Abstract
The expected relative abundances of the commoner species in a biological population are less if the niches are overlapping than if they are non-overlapping. MacArthur's mathematical arguments, which lead to the opposite conclusion, are incorrect.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Table for Calculating the `Equitability' Component of Species DiversityJournal of Animal Ecology, 1964
- On the Relative Abundance of SpeciesThe American Naturalist, 1960