Entropy maximization and the spatial distribution of species

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Haegeman, Bart ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broken stick model; HEAP model; Prior distribution; Random placement model; Scale transformation; Spatial abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENTROPY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 77949519058     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650718     Document Type: Article

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