Brian J. McGill, Brian A. Maurer, and Michael D. Weisser. 2006. Empirical evaluation of neutral theory. Ecology 87:1411–1423.

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The Matlab source code containing the algorithm described in this paper to fit the analytical ZSM.
Ecological Archives E087-080-S1.

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Author(s)

Brian McGill
Department of Biology
McGill University
1205 ave Dr. Penfield
Montreal, QC H3A 1B1
e-mail: mail@brianmcgill.org

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Individual Matlab files

estimate_anal_ZSM.m
estimate_anal_zsm_theta.m
expphi.m
getphi.m
isvector.m
myhistc.m
philocal.m
plotexpphi.m
sadhist.m
solvetheta.m

All files at once

anzsm.zip - Contains all Matlab files

Description

This paper will calculate Eq. 7 in Volkov et al. (2003. Nature 424:1035–1037) and estimate the parameters θ and m that make the ZSM best fit a particular data set. Details are found at Appendix D.