Inferring plant ecosystem organization from species occurrences

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 323-329

  Azaele, S ^a   Muneepeerakul, R ^a   Rinaldo, A ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecological interactions; Ising model; Maximum entropy; Occurrence data; Power law; Species associations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450284496     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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