Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Use of cover data to model species abundance distributions through continuous probability functions
doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-94587-w
Figure Lengend Snippet: Model fit evaluation for plant species abundance distributions (SADs) along an elevational gradient in the Alborz Mountains (Iran). (a) Log-transformed χ 2 -test values for different parametric models (exponential, gamma, lognormal, Pareto, and Weibull), representing the goodness-of-fit between observed species richness in each cover class and expected values from the models. Lower Chi² values indicates a better fit. (b) ΔAICc values for the same five models, where lower values indicate a better fit. Three data points from the exponential model were removed for clarity as they had ΔAICc values below − 100.
Article Snippet: Fig. 3 Changes of Weibull parameters for vascular plant species abundance distributions (SADs) along a transect in the Alborz Mountains (Iran): (a) relationship between φ (shape) and elevation; (b) relationship between λ (scale) and elevation.
Techniques: Transformation Assay