Hubbell's enduring challenge to community ecology
by J. Terry Rolfe
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 10, No. 3/4, 2009

Abstract: Central to conservation biology is the need to study population structure and how this influences community change. This paper reviews Stephen Hubbell's 2001 introduction of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and considers how useful it has been for interdisciplinary exploration. The approach taken here highlights Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity then differentiates it from traditional niche doctrine. It considers how Hubbell's widely cited empirical work challenged the assumed universal applicability of niche theory and prompted dialectic debate about alternatives, multi-tiered ecological applicability and methodological advancement through mathematical modelling.

Online publication date: Mon, 13-May-2013

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