Excited to share that our study identifying a unifying model of species abundance distributions (SADs) has just been published: rdcu.be/ejYKe. We found that the ‘powerbend’— a bent power law — accurately describes SADs across ~30,000 animal, plant, and microbial communities.
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The pointless destruction of the world's leading scientific and medical research system
No one benefits from this
my thoughts on the destructive chaos targeting university research right now. Btw I've left @forbes and moved to @SubstackInc, where all my content is free: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/the-pointl...
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