The Neutral Theory of Ecology

MIT 8.591J Systems Biology, Fall 2014
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Instructor: Jeff Gore
In this lecture, Prof. Jeff Gore asks why are some species abundant and others rare? Are there universal patterns at play? And what lead to these patterns?
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[@chrismoore6359]

At 30:15 Gore: "I'm not dead set against [the log-abundance histogram]-it's just that it makes everybody think something that's not true." I can't disagree with this statement.

[@jeanneraymundo9820]

this theory helped me a lot in regards of my technical paper about the Unified Neutral theory. though i'm still not understanding the theory fully, i think i'm already halfway there

[@monocyte2210]

good luck man

[@alasdairniven6578]

Hope your tutor is better than this guy.

[@ganapathyk3307]

Nice protective comment, you already understood (i e visualized) 100%

[@markcarey67]

The breaking up of the stone giving you a lognormal was due to Kolmogorov

[@ElectricityTaster]

I have no strong feelings one way or another.

[@natureecology4180]

(y) (DEGREE IN APPLIED ECOLOGY- Tila Vincent)

[@funwithflags7506]

there was something odd with this guy teaching

[@gnirrednow]

Humbo

[@max-nm6qx]

Blessings every one... Great watch here... "FROM EVOLUTIONIST TO CREATIONIST" BY PROFESSOR WALTER VEITH POWERFUL TRUE AMAZING STORY FROM SOUTH AFRICA ENJOY 😀

[@SuperHabeck]

He had to google a hectare, and didn't know that it was a metric measure. Really?

[@MCPretzelM999]

It's weird. I was taught this in high school, and it seems like he just didn't know what it was (either that or he was trying to level with the students). More importantly, though, even MIT professors make mistakes.

[@dorianl.210]

I think it was to make the students feel fine about not knowing it

[@alasdairniven6578]

@@dorianl.210 why would the students not know? I can remember being taught it in P3 (7 or 8 years) in 1974. , To be fair though, even after 50 years of metrication, farmers still think in acres.

[@y2kbug58]

Americans still use imperial measures, exclusively. In Britain we use both metric and imperial measures on different things in different situations when it suits us