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Science 4 February 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5710, pp. 684 - 686
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106935
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Untangling an Entangled Bank

David Storch, Pablo A. Marquet, Kevin J. Gaston

The processes that influence the distribution and diversity of species throughout the world has long fascinated biologists. In a Perspective, Storch, Marquet and Gaston discuss a recent meeting that explored ways to quantitate and analyze the processes that drive patterns of biodiversity.

D. Storch is at the Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, 110 00-CZ Praha 1, Czech Republic. P. A. Marquet is at the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile. K. J. Gaston is in the Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)