Stochastic models and the temporal dynamics of ecological communities

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This thesis develops a quantitative approach to understanding and predicting the spatiotemporal distribution of biodiversity, based on a stochastic version of the theory of island biogeography. Here, I present R package ‘island’, that estimates colonization and extinction rates in a variety of temporal samplings, estimates the influence of the environment on these processes, and simulates temporal dynamics of the associated models. ‘island’ has been applied specially to microbial communities, but applies to any ecological community. This stochastic model is valuable as an effective model that summarizes the effects of dispersal, selection, drift, making easy the study of complex temporal dynamics. This thesis also emphasizes the importance of long-term research for obtaining new insights into community ecology and improve our understanding of the spatiotemporal distribution of biodiversity ​
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