28 Jérôme Chave
Legendre, P. and Legendre, L. (1998)Numerical Ecology.
2nd English Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Legendre, P., Borcard, D., and Peres-Neto, P.R. (2005)
Analyzin gbeta-diversity: partitionin gthe spatial vari-
ation of community composition data.Ecological
Monographs75, 435–450.
Leigh, E.G., Wright, S.J., Putz, F.E.et al. (1993) The
decline of tree diversity on newly isolated tropi-
cal islands: a test of a null hypothesis and some
implications.Evolutionary Ecology7, 76–102.
Levin, S.A. (1970) Community equilibria and stabil-
ity, and an extension of the competitive exclusion
principle.American Naturalist104, 413–423.
Levin, S.A. (1992) The problem of pattern and scale in
ecology.Ecology73, 1943–1967.
Loreau, M. (1998) Biodiversity and ecosystem function-
ing: a mechanistic model.Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America95,
5632–5636.
Lucas, Y., Luizao, F.J., Chauvel, A.et al. (1993) The
relation between biological activity and mineral com-
position of soils.Science260, 521–523.
Magurran, A.E. (2004)Measuring Biological Diversity.
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Malécot, G. (1948)Les Mathématiques de l’Hérédité.
Masson, Paris.
May, R.M. (1973)Stability and Complexity in Model
Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
McKnight, M.W., White, P.S., McDonald, R.I.et al.
(2007) Puttin gbeta-diversity on the map: broad-scale
congruence and coincidence in the extremesPLoS
Biology, 5, 2424–2432.
Mouquet, N. and Loreau, M. (2003) Community pat-
terns in source-sink metacommunities.American Nat-
uralist162, 544–557.
Nathan, R. and Muller-Landau, H.C. (2000) Spatial
patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and
consequences for recruitment.Trends in Ecology and
Evolution15, 278–285.
Nee, S. and May, R.M. (1997). Extinction and the loss of
evolutionary history.Science278, 692–694.
Nekola, J.C. and White, P.S. (1999) The distance decay
of similarity in biogeography and ecology.Journal of
Biogeography26, 867–878.
Nei, M. (1973) Analysis of gene diversity in sub-
divided populations. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America70,
3321–3323.
Nei, M. (1987) Molecular Evolutionary Genetics.
Columbia University Press, NewYork.
New, M.G., Lister, D., Hulme, M.et al. (2002) A high-
resolution data set of surface climate for terrestrial
land areas.Climate Research21, 1–25.
Newbery, D.M. and Proctor, J. (1984) Ecological stud-
ies in four contrastin glowland rain forests in
Gunun gMulu National Park, Sarawak: IV. Associa-
tions between tree distribution and soil factors.Journal
of Ecology72, 475–493.
Newbery, D.M., Renshaw, E., and Brunig, E.F. (1986)
Spatial pattern of tree in kerangas forest, Sarawak.
Vegetatio65, 77–89.
Ohman, J.L. and Spies, T.A. (1998) Regional gradient
analysis and spatial pattern of woody plant commu-
nities of Oregon forests.Ecological Monographs68,
151–182.
Oliveira, A.A. de and Mori, S.A. (1999) A central
Amazonian terra firme forest I. High tree species
richness on poor soils.Biodiversity and Conservation8,
1219–1244.
Pavoine, S., Ollier, S., and Dufour, A.-B. (2005) Is the
originality of species measurable?Ecology Letters8,
579–586.
Pennington, R.T. and Dick, C.W. (2004) The role of
immigrants in the assembly of the South American
rainforest tree flora.Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London359, 1611–1622.
Phillips, O.L., Nuñez, P., Monteagudo, A.L.et al. (2003)
Habitat association amon gAmazonian tree species:
a landscape-scale approach.Journal of Ecology91,
757–775.
Pielou, E.C. (1975)Ecological Diversity.Wiley Inter-
Science, NewYork.
Pitman, N.C.A., Terborgh, J.W., Silman, M.R.et al.
(1999) Tree species distributions in an upper
Amazonian forest.Ecology80, 2651–2661.
Pitman, N.C.A., Terborgh, J.W., Silman, M.R.et al.
(2001) Dominance and distribution of tree species
in upper Amazonian terra firme forests.Ecology82,
2101–2117.
Plotkin, J.B. and Muller-Landau, H.C. (2002) Sampling
the species composition of a landscape.Ecology83,
3344–3356.
Poore, M.E.D. (1968) Studies in the Malaysian rain for-
est. I. The forest on Triassic sediments in the Jengka
Forest Reserve.Journal of Ecology56, 143–196.
Potts, M.D., Ashton, P.S., Kaufman, L.S.et al. (2002)
Habitat patterns in tropical rain forests: a compari-
son of 105 plots in Northwest Borneo.Ecology83,
2782–2797.
Pulliam, H.R. (1988) Sources, sinks, and population
regulation.American Naturalist132, 652–661.
Purvis, A., Agapow, P.-M., Gittleman, J.L. and
Mace, G.M. (2000). Nonrandom extinction and the
loss of evolutionary history.Science288, 328–330.
Pyke, C.R., Condit, R., Aguilar, S.et al. (2001) Floris-
tic composition across a climatic gradient in a