Limitations of entropy maximization in ecology: A reply to Haegeman and Loreau

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-159

  Shipley, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENTROPY;

EID: 58149133606     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17179.x     Document Type: Article

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