W. Godsoe

Jaccard dissimilarity in stochastic community models based on the species-independence assumption

The paper develops probabilistic models to analyze beta-diversity by considering species presence probabilities across sites and applies them to woodpecker distribution data.

Species interactions and diversity: a unified framework using Hill numbers

This paper unifies models of biotic interactions with diversity measurements, showing that biodiversity changes can arise from various interactions and that traditional diversity analyses obscure absolute abundance changes.

Disentangling niche theory and beta diversity change

The paper develops a framework to partition changes in beta diversity into ecological mechanisms, showing that short-term species impacts on beta diversity are not predictable from long-term niche traits.

Selection and Biodiversity change

The paper develops a new framework using the Price equation to show biodiversity change is driven by selection on species rarity, not competition or selection on species identity.

The generalized Price equation: forces that change population statistics

The paper generalizes the Price equation to apply to any population statistic expressed as a function of frequencies and measurements, separating direct forces from altered frame of reference effects.