2014年5月21日,PNAS杂志在线发布题为《海洋生物圈的普遍与稀有》(Commonness and Rarity in the Marine Biosphere)的文章,研究者发布了他们突破性的发现,这些发现推翻了生物多样性中性理论。在过去的10年中,中性理论主导了生物多样性研究。中性理论的目的是解释生态系统内物种的多样以及相对丰度,但是这个理论有一个重大的缺陷:它不能解释海洋生态中高度丰富物种的重要性。该理论认 On May 21, 2014, PNAS magazine published an online article entitled “Commonness and Rarity in the Marine Biosphere,” where researchers released their groundbreaking findings that overthrow biodiversity Neutral theory. In the past 10 years, neutral theory has dominated biodiversity research. The purpose of the neutral theory is to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecosystems, but there is a major flaw with this theory: it can not explain the importance of highly enriched species in marine ecology. The theory recognizes