Macroecology was developed as a big picture statistical approach to the study of ecology
and evolution. By focusing on broadly occurring patterns and processes operating at large
spatial and temporal scales rather than on localized and/or fine-scaled details,
macroecology aims to uncover general mechanisms operating at organism, population, and
ecosystem levels of organization. Macroecological studies typically involve the statistical
analysis of fundamental species-level traits, such as body size, area of geographical range …