Summary: LETTER
Setting the absolute tempo of biodiversity dynamics
Andrew P. Allen1
* and
Van M. Savage2
1
National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State
St, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA
93101, USA
2
Department of System Biology,
Harvard Medical School, 200
Longwood Ave., Boston, MA
02115, USA
*Correspondence: E-mail:
drewa@nceas.ucsb.edu
Abstract
Neutral biodiversity theory has the potential to contribute to our understanding of how
macroevolutionary dynamics influence contemporary biodiversity, but there are issues

Source: Allen, Andrew P. - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Grether, Gregory - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles

Collections: Environmental Sciences and Ecology