Assembly Rules - Alternative Theory

Alternative Theory

As a reaction to the assembly rules controversy, ecologist Stephen Hubbell proposed that the abundance and diversity of species in a community is determined mainly by random dispersal, speciation, and extinction. This came to be known as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity.

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