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Nature 436, 635-636 (4 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436635a; Published online 3 August 2005

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Ecology:  Neutral theory tested by birds

Annette Ostling1

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A continental-scale analysis of habitat and bird distribution in South America provides the latest challenge for neutral theory — a controversial idea in ecology about what determines the make-up of communities.

How do different species end up living together in communities? Do they coexist only when each finds a different niche, or simply when they happen to disperse to the same habitable region?

  1. Annette Ostling is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1003, USA.
    Email: aostling@princeton.edu

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