ArticleEcology and evolution2018
DAR (diversity-area relationship): Extending classic SAR (species-area relationship) for biodiversity and biogeography analyses.
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- Microbial Species-Area Relationships on the Skins of Amphibian Hosts.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Distinct Ecological Processes Mediate Domain-Level Differentiation in Microbial Spatial Scaling.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Host-Population Microbial Diversity Scaling of Chinese Gut Microbiomes in Gout Patients.Evolutionary bioinformatics online · 2022Article
- Diversity-scaling analysis of human breast milk microbiomes from population perspective.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Species-area and network-area relationships in host-helminth interactions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Diversity Scaling of Human Digestive Tract (DT) Microbiomes: The Intra-DT and Inter-individual Patterns.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Inter-Individual Diversity Scaling Analysis of the Human Virome With Classic Diversity-Area Relationship (DAR) Modeling.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Population-level diversity-disease relationship (Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021Article
- Diversity Scaling Analysis of Chinese Gut Microbiomes Across Ethnicities and Lifestyles.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Microbial Species-Area Relationships in Antarctic Cryoconite Holes Depend on Productivity.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Predicting the Outbreak Risks and Inflection Points of COVID-19 Pandemic with Classic Ecological Theories.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Estimating the Optimum Coverage and Quality of Amplicon Sequencing With Taylor's Power Law Extensions.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
- Assessing and Interpreting the Metagenome Heterogeneity With Power Law.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Microbiomes: Medical Ecology and Network Analyses of the Microgenderome.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2019Article
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Abstract
I extend the classic SAR, which has achieved status of ecological law and plays a critical role in global biodiversity and biogeography analyses, to general DAR (diversity-area relationship). The extension was aimed to remedy a serious application limitation of the traditional SAR that only addressed one aspect of biodiversity scaling-species richness scaling over space, but ignoring species abundance information. The extension was further inspired by a recent consensus that Hill numbers offer the most appropriate measures for alpha-diversity and multiplicative beta-diversity. In particular, Hill numbers are essentially a series of Renyi's entropy values weighted differently along the rare-common-dominant spectrum of species abundance distribution and are in the units of effective number of species (or species equivalents such as OTUs). I therefore postulate that Hill numbers should follow the same or similar law of the traditional SAR. I test the postulation with the American gut microbiome project (AGP) dataset of 1,473 healthy North American individuals. I further propose three new concepts and develop their statistical estimation formulae based on the new DAR extension, including: (i) DAR profile-
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