A politely petulant reaction to Pielou and Arnasson’s correction of Vandermeer and MacArthur’s correction of MacArthur’s first formulation from the “broken stick” model for overlapping niches. In 1955 Canadian-born American ecologist Robert MacArthur proposed a measure of Neighborhood balance which was connected to the complexity of the ecosystem’s food Internet. https://joshk319hsc9.blog-eye.com/profile