Inferential permutation tests for maximum entropy models in ecology

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2794-2805

  Shipley, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Generalized log series; Log series; Maximum entropy (maxent); Permutation tests; Species abundance distributions (SAD)

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSEMBLY RULE; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; PROBABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77956608766     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1255.1     Document Type: Article

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