... 25:36 7-3 80. 89 J. Wu, K.B. Jones, H. Li, and O.L. Loucks (eds.), Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications, 89–108. © 2006 Springer. Printed in the Netherlands. ... Occupancy Theory and Applications FANGLIANG HE AND WILLIAM REED 5.1 INTRODUCTION One of the most important contributions to our understanding of how and why species distribute in landscapes is ... other biodiversity patterns, such as species-area curves (He and Legendre 2002, He et al. 2002) and beta diversity patterns (Plotkin and Muller-Landau 2002). When used for sampling populations,...