Table 1. Maximum likelihood estimates (Etienne 2005) of θ and m by the neutral model, with J  = 10 000, θ = 50.

Parameters used in simulations			Parameters estimated by the neutral model
θ	m	σ	()	()
50	0.01	0.1	59.2 (44.6)	0.008 (0.046)
		1	33.6 (37.6)	0.021 (0.062)
		4	18.1 (18.9)	0.083 (0.149)
	0.1	0.1	51.9 (52.9)	0.087 (0.100)
		1	42.9 (42.9)	0.154 (0.177)
		4	30.3 (30.2)	0.327 (0.375)
	0.3	0.1	51.5 (51.6)	0.269 (0.282)
		1	46.5 (46.5)	0.361 (0.395)
		4	35.1 (35.0)	0.657 (0.678)

and are estimated values of θ and m from the mean species abundance distribution averaged over 100 replicate simulations, whereas and in the brackets are averages over estimated values for 100 replicate simulations for each parameter set.