Quantification of information in a one-way plant-to-animal communication system

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-442

  Doyle, Laurance R ^a  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological communications; Chemical plant signals; Information theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349582161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e110300431     Document Type: Article

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