The expansion of information in ecological systems: Emergence as a quantifiable state

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-116

  Marsh, Adam G ^a   Zeng, Yujing ^b   Garcia Frias, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergence; Information; Mutual information; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INFORMATICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 31444446431     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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