Characterizing species abundance distributions across taxa and ecosystems using a simple maximum entropy model

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1772-1778

  White, Ethan P ^a   Thibault, Katherine M ^a,b   Xiao, Xiao ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Butterflies; Citizen science; Commonness; Community structure; Informatics; Mammals; Maximum entropy; Rarity; Species abundance distribution; Trees

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; MAMMAL; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RARE SPECIES; RARITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84864712080     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2177.1     Document Type: Article

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