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Phone Call 2/24/09

• Summary of Josh's method and comparisons
• JG comments:
  • Elaine's work and Woodcock show that you can't use Harte (slope of distance-decay fails unless species are laid out in a specific way)
  • Having a solution is a new thing
  • Has notes on her efforts in this direction
  • Looked at effect of sampling on Harte derivations (the problem seems to be more than sampling)
  • Look at eqn 1 and 2 in Morlon paper
  • UK biodiversity mtg: how to scale diversity up?
    • that community is using statistical modeling
    • results depend a lot on the community structure assumptions
    • can let z depend on area, make it scale dependent
• Josh will write up derivations
• JG will send her notes, slides from UK, some more papers, and serpentine & Australian fungi data set

Update 4/22/09

• Josh and Katie have been working on inferring taxa-area relationships from distance-decay relationships. For an overview of some of their thoughts, click here.

Update 6/3/09

• Josh and Katie have been thinking about regression models for distance-decay relationships, which are a key component of their approach for inferring taxa-area relationships from distance-decay relationships. For an overview of some of their thoughts, click here.

Update 6/22/09

• Click here for the recent Harte et al paper on biodiversity scaling.