Information driven ecohydrologic self-organization

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2085-2096

  Kumar, Praveen ^a   Ruddell, Benjamin L ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Fluxnet; Information theory; Self organization; Transfer entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958187339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12102085     Document Type: Article

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