joint species distribution models
Statistical framework that simultaneously models multiple species responses to environmental gradients while accounting for species associations and phylogenetic relationships
Constant Connectance in Space model
Model developed to determine LARs based on SAR and simple properties of food webs including species richness, number of links and connectance
Fisher logseries distribution
A statistical distribution commonly observed in species abundance patterns, predicted by METE for undisturbed communities
Michaelis-Menten model
A saturation function P = (Vmax * S)/(K + S) where P is productivity, S is richness, K is half-saturation point, and Vmax is asymptote
Niche Model
Model that constructs food webs by assigning niche values and ranges to species while maintaining desired connectance
additive prediction
Predicting community-level function by summing individual species contributions based on their abundance and per-capita rates