Maximum entropy and the state-variable approach to macroecology

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2700-2711

  Harte, J ^a   Zillio, T ^b   Conlisk, E ^a   Smith, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Endemics area relationship; Energy distribution; Macroecology; Maximum entropy; Metabolic theory; Spatial pattern; Spatial scaling; Species abundance distribution; Species area relationship; State variables

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENTROPY; MACROECOLOGY; METABOLISM; PREDICTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149361827     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1369.1     Document Type: Article

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