Rarity, Commonness, and the Contribution of Individual Species to Species Richness Patterns

@article{izling2009RarityCA,
  title={Rarity, Commonness, and the Contribution of Individual Species to Species Richness Patterns},
  author={Arno{\vs}t Leo{\vs} {\vS}izling and Eva {\vS}izlingov{\'a} and David Storch and Jiř{\'i} Reif and Kevin J. Gaston},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={2009},
  volume={174},
  pages={82 - 93}
}
Common species have a greater effect on observed geographical patterns of species richness than do rare ones. Here we present a theory of the relationship between individual species occurrence patterns and patterns in species richness, which allows purely geometrical and statistical causes to be distinguished from biological ones. Relationships between species occupancy and the correlation of species occurrence with overall species richness are driven by the frequency distribution of species… 
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