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Supplemental Information

S1: Documentation of search terms

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27054v1/supp-1

S2: Time series of publication counts

Number of publications over the last four decades for the search term combinations (Biodiversity Theories + Conservation), (Neutral Theories + Conservation), and (Niche Theories + Conservation).

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27054v1/supp-2

Additional Information

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Katrin M. Meyer analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft, conceived the research.

Marco Sciaini analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft, conducted systematic literature search.

Clara-Sophie van Waveren analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The research in this article did not generate any data or code, because it is a literature review. We attach a documentation of search terms as Supplemental Material.

Funding

This research was part of the Research Training Group 1644 - Scaling Problems in Statistics funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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