Sometimes the obvious answer is the right one: a response to ‘Missing the rarest: is the positive interspecific abundance–distribution relationship a truly general macroecological pattern?’

Abstract

In a recent Opinion piece, [Komonen et al. (2009)][1] suggested that, contrary to previous assertions, the positive interspecific relationship between abundance and distribution may not be a general macroecological pattern. The basis for this claim was their analysis of a single dataset on the