Reference library
Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity.
Paper summary
Compiles biodiversity data to investigate commonness, rarity, dominance, and richness scaling across microbes and larger organisms. Extrapolated scaling relationships yield very large estimates of global microbial diversity.
Relevance to the project
A reference for abundance distributions and diversity measurements across scales. Could help distinguish richness from evenness or functional diversity in simulated populations.
Global extrapolations are uncertain and are not direct counts of all species.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc4889364
- Archived version
- PMC article HTML; manuscript/publication label retained in source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc4889364/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.