Total abundance ( N ) number of individuals Species richness ( S ) number of species

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Total abundance ( N ) number of individuals Species richness ( S ) number of species. S ≤ N. Rank-abundance distribution (RAD). Abundance. Rank in abundance. Rank-abundance distribution (RAD). Abundance. Rank in abundance. n 1 + n 2 +…+ n S = N. Abundance. Rank in abundance. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Total abundance (N)number of individuals

Species richness (S) number of species

S ≤ N

Rank-abundance distribution (RAD)

Rank in abundance

Abun

danc

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Rank-abundance distribution (RAD)

Rank in abundance

Abun

danc

e

Abun

danc

e

Rank in abundance

n1+n2+…+nS = N

N=50, S=10

16,958 forms of the RAD

Rank in abundance

Abun

danc

e

The feasible set(all possible shapes of the RAD)

16,958 shapes forQ = 50 & N = 10

Rank in abundance

Abun

danc

e

Mapping the feasible setln

(abu

ndan

ce)

Rank in abundance

N=1,000S=80

The center of the feasible setln

(abu

ndan

ce)

Rank in abundance

N=500S=50

R2 = 0.93

100 101 102

102

101

100

Obs

erve

d ab

unda

nce

Abundance at center of the feasible set

Obs

erve

d ab

unda

nce

Abundance at center of the feasible set

0.74 0.84

0.78 0.80

0.85

0.76

Total (N)number of individual ‘things’

Entities (S)number of groups of ‘things’

S ≤ N

Expected home runs

Obs

erve

d ho

me

runs

0.93 0.88

0.91 0.91

0.94 0.93

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0.91

Expected

Obs

erve

dUrban population sizes

among nations(1960-2009, rescaled)

Oil related CO2 emission among nations

(1980-2009, rescaled)

0.92

Obs

erve

dExpected

Total (N)number of individual ‘things’

Entities (S)number of groups of ‘things’

S ≤ N

den

sity

Species evenness (Evar)

Species evenness for all possible RADs

N = 50, S = 20

N = 50, S = 10

den

sity

Species evenness (Evar)

Species evenness for all possible RADs

N = 50, S = 20

N = 50, S = 10

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Evenness

Normalized rank

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AcknowledgementsFor collecting, managing and providing datasets:North American Breeding Bird SurveyChristmas Bird CountGentry’s Forest Transect DataForest Inventory and Analysis datasetMicrobial metagenomic datasets accessed from MG-RASTMammal Community Database

Awesome folks:X. Xiao, D. McGlinn, J. Kitzes, James O’Dwyer

Funding: CAREER grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to EPW (DEB-0953694)Research grant from Amazon Web Services

Other Support:Utah State University’s Department of Biology and the Ecology Center

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